Category: TWS Wildlife News

The President’s budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 was released by the Office Management and Budget in early February. Each agency has released their individual budget justifications outlining requested...

Eastern tiger swallowtail caterpillars (papilio glaucus) are even cooler than they look. With lime green snake-like bodies, scary faux black and yellow eyes and an orange forked-tongue that often releases...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is nearly impossible to kill in the deer that are affected by it. But government agencies in some regions of North America are fighting a battle...

The 114th session Congress began in January, bringing changes to the leadership of committees and subcommittees with jurisdiction over wildlife in both the House and the Senate. The House Natural...

Wildlife poaching and trade are a serious threat to wildlife conservation. The escalation and severity of this threat has prompted the United States to take action. On February 11, 2015,...

Earlier this month, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) — an alliance of more than 1,400 membership-based hunting and fishing organizations — created a coalition to put a stop to...

The best way for some moths to avoid ending up on an upside-down dinner plate is by sporting a lot of tail, according to new research. A study published in...

Yellowstone National Park is teaming up with Utah State University to conduct a study that will help determine why the northern Yellowstone elk herd has declined 60 to 70 percent...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the process of drafting a proposed rule for part of its Planning 2.0 Initiative. Planning 2.0 is the agency’s strategy to streamline...

Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico), along with a group of four other bipartisan co-sponsors, recently introduced S. 405, The Bipartisan Sportsmen Act of 2015. The bill...