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Improvements to bait boxes — a tool used to kill ticks on mice and chipmunks — can successfully lower the prevalence of ticks in the rodents, according to new research....

A growing number of fungal diseases are affecting wildlife in North America and around the world. This issue of The Wildlife Professional looks at the wave of fungal disease taking...

The New England Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Spring Business Meeting and Workshop will be held on March 13, 2017 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm in conjunction with the...

In the mountains of Maine, where spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) and wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) breed in temporary vernal pools, they depend most on ponds that stay wet for longer...

Over the course of one year, an American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) population in Maine dropped significantly, likely a result of drought, according to new research presented at the TWS...

Project SNOWstorm, a study aimed at tagging and tracking snowy owls (Bubo scandiacus) to learn more about the species and its movement, recently celebrated its third anniversary. The project, which...

As many of you likely know, this year’s Annual Conference for The Wildlife Society was held in Raleigh, NC from October 15-19. The University of Maine sent five undergraduates, and...

In New York — the first state where the deadly white-nose syndrome was detected in 2006 — biologists recently made a surprising observation: some small populations of the little brown...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Fish & Wildlife (DFW) faces public controversy while managing one of the densest populations of black bears (Ursus americanus) in the...

On Shepherd University’s campus in Shepherdstown, W.V, chimney swifts (Chaetura pelagica) roost in a chimney on Sara Cree Hall before heading south in the fall. Some evenings in the fall,...