Category: TWS News

Longleaf pine forests once occupied over 90 million acres across the Southeast including most of Eastern North Carolina. By all accounts, the longleaf pine forest dominated the southern landscape. Starting...

The Wildlife Society has a collection of powerful position statements on a wide variety of issues pertinent to wildlife management, conservation, and the profession. These formal statements serve to convey...

Editor’s Note Marking a Milestone Welcome to the 10th anniversary issue of your membership magazine, The Wildlife Professional. Since I joined The Wildlife Society staff in October 2014, many past...

Featured in the January issue (vol. 80.1) of The Journal of Wildlife Management are: Ferruginous Hawks and Artificial Platforms Harvest Indices and Population Trends for Cougars Northern Bobwhite and Woody...

I hope you have had a very productive year in all your endeavors working on our wildlife resources.   We all should feel fortunate to work in a profession where we...

The New Mexico Chapter of the Wildlife Society sent a letter on November 21 to the New Mexico Game Commission and the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish encouraging...

From studying bats and sharp-tailed grouse habitat to attending fire ecology workshops and meeting with tribal leaders, students involved in the first Native American Assistantship offered by The Wildlife Society...

Strengthening TWS and Our Role in Policy Over the past two decades, expansion of captive cervid propagation and commercialization activities in the United States has threatened the health of wild...

“North Carolina.” When you hear the words, what comes to mind? Basketball? Barbeque? Beaches and mountains? And, for TWS 2015 attendees, Sir Walter Raleigh and lemurs? While these things may...

About a month after its conclusion, it is useful to reflect on the 2015 TWS Annual Conference in Winnipeg. The Conference this year was designed to increase the participant experience,...