Geographical Location: Northwest

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be completing a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf in the western U.S. after its delisting from the federal Endangered Species Act...

A changing climate resulting in reduced sea ice coverage is causing Indigenous seal hunters who rely on the marine mammals for subsistence to change their methods. As the ice continues...

Pygmy rabbits aren’t easy to find, and recent wildfires in Oregon raise questions about effects on their isolated populations. Recently, biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife set...

Washington State Department of Agriculture workers are on the lookout for Asian giant hornets after a recent sighting. Team members set traps in the area in an attempt to tag...

Throughout the Pacific Northwest, federally threatened northern spotted owls have faced growing competition from invasive barred owls, which have moved into their range. By removing the invaders, researchers found, they...

Community scientists are having a difficult time observing even the most common birds amidst the smoke from wildfires on the West Coast. A team of scientists combined data from eBird,...

A boreal toad population has become nearly extirpated in an area of western Montana that was relatively recently converted to a national wildlife refuge. “In essence, what we found in...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to repeal or replace the previous administration’s rule that exempts the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from roadless-area restrictions on logging and other development....

Wolverines use deep fissures in the Arctic permafrost as dens, photos have revealed. “After we found three of them, it seemed like enough of a pattern to start sharing it,”...

The state of Washington’s wolf population continued to grow last year, reaching its highest levels in recent years since wolves have begun returning to the state. The state’s annual wolf...