Category: TWS News

July 8, 2016

TWS leads congressional briefing regarding BLM horses and burros

The National Horse and Burro Rangeland Management Coalition, chaired by The Wildlife Society, hosted a congressional briefing on July 6 to discuss wild horse and burro management with staffers and...

July 7, 2016

President’s Podium: Service to The Wildlife Society

Executive Director Ken Williams and I have written in previous communications about The Wildlife Society’s 2015-2019 strategic plan and its five broad themes. These goals are centered around helping our...

June 28, 2016

A falcon legacy

Skip Ambrose hasn’t missed an American peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) nesting season in 40 years. Through binoculars and spotting scopes, he has watched the population on the upper Yukon River...

June 28, 2016

Announcing the June 2016 Issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin

The June 2016 issue (Vol. 40.2) of the Wildlife Society Bulletin contains 13 original articles as well as nine papers on tools and technology, three opinion pieces and two notes...

June 27, 2016

Celebrate the National Park Service’s Centennial in North Carolina

Good news! Not only do you get to visit the great state of North Carolina for TWS 2016, but you get to visit during one of the most spectacular times...

June 27, 2016

TWS Government Affairs testifies in BLM horse program hearing

The House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands held an oversight hearing entitled “Challenges and Potential Solutions for BLM’s Wild Horse & Burro Program” last week to discuss...

June 23, 2016

TWS member joins the ranks of Boone and Crockett wildlife professors

It was a fall day in the mid-1980s, and then 15-year-old Joshua Millspaugh had just read in the news that researchers in upstate New York had immobilized a moose and...

June 22, 2016

New Partner supports TWS members and pollinator health

As a new TWS Premier Partner, Bayer Bee Care will help the Society foster an innovative conservation program and stimulate an increase in suitable pollinator habitat. As part of the...

June 16, 2016

Linking science and management at this year’s Annual Conference

While The Wildlife Society includes a wide variety of professionals and students who are focused on wildlife science, management and conservation, under the leadership of TWS President Gary Potts the...

June 9, 2016

TWS chooses winner for 2017 conference Logo Contest

With such diverse cultural and ecological influences in the American Southwest, there was no shortage of unique designs submitted to the Logo Contest for TWS’ 2017 Annual Conference in Albuquerque,...