Category: TWS News

December 23, 2020

Final critical habitat rule released

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final rule updating its process of excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species under Endangered Species Act....

December 16, 2020

The January issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

December 14, 2020

Wildlife Vocalizations: Travis Booms

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. “Don’t be reasonable” is guidance I was not expecting to receive from my...

December 10, 2020

EKU chapter members sharpen fieldwork skills in ecological area

A few miles past Eastern Kentucky University spreads the Taylor Fork Ecological Area. The 60-acre landscape of pasture and forest provides EJU wildlife students a place to hone their skills...

December 9, 2020

ATU chapter members get their feet wet in river cleanup

Arkansas Tech University professors and students partnered with the ATU Fisheries and Wildlife Society to clean a nearby stream. The university’s student chapter members originally planned to participate in a...

December 3, 2020

TWS member works to make buildings safer for birds

TWS member Karen Powers is trying to make her community a little more bird friendly. A wildlife biologist at Radford University, where she serves as the faculty adviser for the...

November 24, 2020

Wildlife Vocalizations: Rhiannon Kirton

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. I would like to see the wildlife field become more diverse over the...

November 13, 2020

Wildlife Vocalizations: Emily Thoroski

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. I imagine a world of peace, of happiness, of fairness, of equality, and...

November 6, 2020

Wyoming student chapter perseveres through pandemic

This article originally appeared in the Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2020 newsletter. Through strange times, the University of Wyoming’s Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society has not...

November 6, 2020

Apply now for USFS Native American Research Assistantship

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), through partnership with The Wildlife Society, is offering research assistantships for Native American undergraduate or graduate students as part of the Native American Research Assistantship...