Category: TWS Wildlife News

What would a barn swallow be without barns? According to recent research, maybe nothing at all. After studying the birds’ DNA, researchers believe it may be impossible to separate barn...

Researchers recently mapped hotspots for human-bear conflicts in the Great Basin using long-term data on bear mortality. Once gone from the Nevada landscape, black bears (Ursus americanus) have been gradually...

The House of Representatives narrowly passed the Manage our Wolves Act, H.R. 6784, which would remove the gray wolf (Canis lupus) in the contiguous 48 states from the endangered species list. The bill would...

Senators John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Doug Jones, D-Ala., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., introduced legislation aimed at increasing the ability of wildlife managers to keep cervid populations healthy. The Chronic Wasting Disease...

Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California, is home to the largest airlift organization in the Air Force. As a major strategic logistics hub with global impact, the base...

Each spring, an estimated 52 million blackbirds migrate north into the northern Great Plains of the United States. In the fall these birds and their offspring, totaling 75 million, drift...

The Bureau of Land Management is offering for lease 2.85 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) next month. It will be the 14th lease sale there since 1999,...

Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing examining the funding needed for wildlife conservation, recovery and management. Witnesses spoke about the need for reliable federal...

Human use of mosquito repellents can be important to combat mosquitoes carrying deadly diseases such as Zika, chikungnya and West Nile virus. But researchers found one common mosquito repellent can...

A federal district court has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated both the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in its management of the red...