Category: TWS Wildlife News

Bustling cities like Chicago are not usually known for their wildlife, but Cooper’s (Accipiter cooperii) and sharp-shinned hawks (Accipiter striatus) have been establishing populations in the city. In Chicago, researchers...

Some 1.4 million white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) roam in Missouri today, but less than a century ago, their numbers had dwindled to the verge of extirpation. It would be understandable,...

A population of nonnative rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) introduced in central Florida is set to double by 2022 unless steps are taken to reduce it, biologists found. But dealing with...

The presence of humans on trails — not the trails themselves — cause the most disturbance to forest birds, according to recent research. In a study published in Frontiers in...

The most recent National Climate Assessment was released last week. This second volume, “Impacts, Risks and Adaptation in the United States,” follows the report on climate change science released last...

The 2018 Farm Bill is nearly complete, but it comes two months after the 2014 Farm Bill expired, which has left the future growth of some programs in limbo. House...

Fourth-grade students from a Utah elementary school piled off the bus into the Wasatch National Forest, where different nature learning stations awaited them. These lucky Redwood Elementary School students were...

For decades, the story of the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana sierrae) has been a bleak one. Once abundant in lakes and ponds in and around Yosemite National Park, the...

When hydrologist Robert Beschta went to Yellowstone National Park, he was looking for the effects that elk (Cervus canadensis) were having on river systems as they browsed down willows on...

A compound in soil could play an important role in combating chronic wasting disease by degrading the prions that cause the lethal disease in cervids, researchers found. CWD has infected...