Geographical Location: Central Mountain & Plains

For many summers in his life, Howard Wiegers led around 20 students as they canoed their way into the Boundary Waters of Ontario to spend some three weeks learning wilderness...

When an opossum turned up shot by an arrow in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Lisa Walsh, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, decided to drive up to check...

The North Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society has provided financial support for the production of a short documentary on the impacts of energy development in the Bakken region. The...

The Red Desert of south-central Wyoming has long been known for robust pronghorn populations, but in the last two decades, herds have diminished up to 30 percent. The deep snow...

Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Winter 2017 newsletter. The...

Appearing in Utah on Monday, President Donald Trump shrank the size of two of the state’s national monuments by about 2 million acres. Trump decreased Bears Ears National Monument by...

Millions of recreationists take to the trails of America’s natural spaces every year to hike, bike, ski and picnic, but even if they take only photographs and leave only footprints,...

The Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society will be hosting their 2017 annual conference December 5-7, 2017 at the Virginian Lodge in Jackson, Wyoming. The agenda includes various workshops, student/professional...

When Yellowstone grizzlies lost their threatened status last June, advocates for the bears feared they were too isolated to sustain their populations without federal protections. The grizzlies (Ursus arctos) are...

For decades, wildlife managers have used prescribed fires to limit woody vegetation on North America’s grasslands, maintaining them much as natural fires once did. Recent research conducted on the North...