Geographical Location: North Central

Throughout rural Illinois, more than 140,000 acres of farmland have been conserved for wildlife. That’s about as much as one-third the acreage of public land in the state. Like similar...

Citizen science is growing in wildlife biology, providing an inexpensive, efficient way to collect large amounts of data. But how should researchers use it effectively? In a presentation titled, “Population...

This article originally appears in the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2018 newsletter. The newsletter includes updates from the Central Michigan University, Michigan State University, Northland College,...

From topics on lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) to northern goshawks (Accipiter gentilis), 15 wildlifers and authors took home the Wildlife Publications Award at the 2018 annual TWS conference in Cleveland,...

This article originally appears in the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2018 newsletter. The newsletter includes updates from the Ball State University, Purdue University and Southern Illinois...

Northern Wisconsin is home to a dozen terrestrial carnivores, from gray wolves (Canis lupus) to red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), but the populations on the Apostle Islands stretching from the Bayfield...

This article originally appears in the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2018 newsletter. The newsletter includes updates from the Bemidji State University, Minnesota State University-Moorhead, University of...

Chester Martin and his twin brother Victor were only in junior high when they started sketching wildlife, getting inspiration from artists like Orville Rice, who illustrated the Texas Parks &...

It was the fall of 1943, and a young Leigh Fredrickson joined his father for a day in a Missouri River oxbow in Iowa collecting cattail leaves. A cooper, his...

The Northwest Missouri State University Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society has concluded its first full semester as a recognized student chapter of TWS, with about 30 active members. Students...