Category: TWS Wildlife News

Goats are coming around the mountains of Yellowstone, according to a new study that shows the introduced animals have expanded their range in the area. But the jury is still...

Swift foxes reintroduced to the badlands in South Dakota are struggling to adapt to some landscape features, though studies show healthy genetic diversity. “It’s very clear that the rugged terrain...

The methods biologists currently use to examine biodiversity could need some tinkering, according to new research. When there’s an absence of recent biodiversity from an area, often researchers assume a...

Grazing in contentious federal land could be causing stress on federally threatened desert tortoises in Nevada, according to new research. A new study published recently in The Journal of Wildlife...

Anthrax, a deadly spore-forming bacterial disease, has been around for quite some time. In fact, it’s one of the first diseases that a vaccine was developed for in the 1930s....

Wildlife managers battling to keep double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) from devastating juvenile fish populations might want to try something that waterfowl hunters use all the time: decoys. In a study...

Recently, a Wildlife Services biologist captured a snowy owl at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. When released, the owl carried a USGS leg band and was the first participant...

Biologists have scrambled up mountains and searched the remote backcountry of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula to provide the first comprehensive estimate of the region’s grizzly bear population. “We’ve been trying to...

On Feb. 22, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service announced revisions to their interagency cooperative policy under the Endangered Species Act to clarify the role...

Want to know what you can do to help manage wildlife cope with climate change? Government agencies and research institutions have developed an online tool that points everyone from policymakers...