Category: TWS Wildlife News

June 21, 2018

Grants create habitat for pollinators

Tagen Baker’s organic farm in California is bustling with life. It’s not just the historic acres of walnut trees on the property, or the fields of lavender, or the heirloom...

June 21, 2018

Senate committee optimistic about farm bill passage

The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee reported the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the Farm Bill, with a 20-1 roll call vote. The 2014 Farm Bill...

June 20, 2018

WSB: Drones gauge wild pigs’ damage to crops

To help manage crop damage caused by feral hogs (Sus scrofa), researchers in Mississippi recently developed a quick, automated system using drone imagery. “When you look from a birds-eye view...

June 20, 2018

Senate committee approves Interior spending bill

On Thursday last week, the Senate Committee on Appropriations unanimously approved a $32.6 billion Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year (FY) 2019 (S. 3073) Only one...

June 19, 2018

Quebec biodiversity may increase with climate change

As climate change disrupts wildlife around the world, protected lands in Quebec might actually see higher biodiversity, researchers found, creating challenges for managers as they deal with wildlife leaving warmer...

June 18, 2018

BioBlitz joins BLM, citizen scientists in New Mexico desert

The Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District recently sponsored its first Bioblitz at the Dripping Springs Natural Area, attracting volunteers from the surrounding communities to learn about the biodiversity...

June 15, 2018

To chart coyotes’ expansion, study looks back 10,000 years

The most popular coyote (Canis latrans) range maps that have made their way across the internet — and even into publications such as Nature and National Geographic — are not...

June 15, 2018

Mating bats go for the silent treatment

Giving someone the “silent treatment” during courtship might not be the best strategy for romance. But new research shows hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) fly with little or no echolocation at all as...

June 14, 2018

Forest Service, Congress discuss wildfire

Both the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands convened during the first week of June to discuss prospects for the 2018 fire season with...

June 14, 2018

Utah desert wetlands abundant with migrating birds

As the water in Utah’s Pariette Wetlands evaporates in the June heat, manager Darren Williams wonders what its future holds. Encompassing 9,204 acres, including 2,529 classified as wetlands or riparian,...