Category: TWS Wildlife News

Specially tailored grazing on the Montana prairie doesn’t benefit sharp-tailed grouse, researchers found, but keeping cattle on the landscape — rather than converting it to farmland — may be critical....

A fragmented landscape places obstacles in the path of swift fox expansion in Montana. Once much more common in the state’s grasslands, the foxes have declined over the last century....

The Bureau of Land Management will allow increased oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The BLM released a final Environmental Impact Statement for the reserve...

Territorial animals may be buffering themselves against disease transmission through behavior similar to social distancing in humans. While illness may still spread between individual animals through scent cues or other...

Warblers can develop different song dialects in different forests, but after wildfires, those dialects can converge in an unusual chorus as different populations come together. That’s the finding of Brett...

The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released a report last week that includes hundreds of recommendations to help the country adapt to climate change, including the Recovering America’s...

Jiake Zhou and three of his colleagues traveled 16 days on inflatable rubber boats in the northern Alaskan wilderness without seeing any other human, with nothing but a few guns...

COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Several bird surveys have been canceled...

In Phoenix, Arizona, many people feel either neutral about bees or dislike them, researchers found, but overall, residents don’t see bees as a problem in their yards. The researchers hope...

An associate professor of landscape and fire ecology at Oregon State University, Meg Krawchuk tries to remain hyper-aware of fire patterns wherever she goes. As a fire ecologist, one of...