Area of Focus: Hunting and Trapping management

The final rule opens up archery deer hunting at three wildlife refuges and phases out lead ammunition and tackle at eight over the next several years

Brad Pendley was named refuge employee of the year

The decision came due to declines over the past 15 years

The park is revising how to handle bison that roam outside its boundaries

Drought and hard winters have reduced populations in southeast Montana

Rufa red knots depend on horseshoe crab eggs

Urials have declined from impacts both ancient and modern

The section arose from a TWS Annual Conference symposium

The number of reports about human-bear conflict actually increased in some areas after a pilot bear hunt was reinstated

The effort will seek ways to aid the turtles and the coastal areas they occupy