FYI News

The California Fish and Game Commission voted last week to prohibit rewards for hunting contests involving species such as coyotes and foxes, classified by the state as non-game species or furbearers. Previously cash and merchandise …

Wood bison (Bison bison athabascae), the larger cousins of the more common plains bison, are being released back into the Alaska wild. Alaska has been housing wood bison in captivity at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation …

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed revisions to its Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) recovery program. With the completion of a final Environmental Impact Statement, FWS proposes to expand the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population …

Wildlife officials released more than 50 green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) into the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast last week after treating the turtles for hypothermia, also known as cold stunning. Read more …

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has closed Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) hunting and trapping on the Kenai Peninsula until 2020. Lynx populations naturally boom and bust based on snowshoe hare population cycles, …

Last week, state wildlife officials confirmed the sighting of two mountain lions (Puma concolor) in Northeast Oklahoma. Read more at The Oklahoman.

Migrating wildlife in Wyoming rely on private and government lands in addition to wilderness areas, according to the Wyoming Migration Initiative’s interim report that mapped five migratory species in the state. Read more at The …

A new report by the U.S. Geological Survey pronounces the population of Louisiana Black Bears stable and indicates the population should sustain as long as conditions remain the same. The study claims that there are …

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has announced that it is reopening the comment period for their proposal to the list the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act …

Researchers identified the culprit of sea star wasting syndrome as sea star associated densovirus, a new pathogen different from all other known viruses infecting marine organisms. Read more at PBS News Hour.