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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,...

The Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society (PATWS) held its inaugural Fall Field Day over the weekend of September 23-24, 2016. The event started on Friday night at the Elk...

Are brook trout destined for extinction? That is a future that Shannon White, a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Tyler Wagner at the USGS Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research...

This cover feature of this issue of The Wildlife Professional examines efforts to protect western rangelands that are being damaged by overabundant feral horses and burros, a controversial issue that...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially approved a new National Wildlife Refuge in the northeastern United States. The Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge will span up to 15,000...

A green anaconda, the largest snake in the world by weight, may be on the loose in a town in Maine. The first sighting came in June, when a Westbrook...

The Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society will be hosting a Field Day/Fall Gathering on Sept. 23-24, 2016, in DuBois and Benezette, Pennsylvania. The event will begin with a visit...

From New Jersey to Manitoba, young piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) are learning to fly on beaches that haven’t seen plover nests in years. The birds’ expansion to new beaches is...

While researchers have long followed the rapid increase and decline of New Jersey’s resident Canada geese populations, recent research looking at data from the last few decades has been able...