Geographical Location: Northwest

The Biden administration is supporting an effort to build a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. In 2019, then-Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt proposed a land exchange...

A salmonella outbreak is affecting songbirds throughout the western United States. Affected birds have been reported from the West Coast to Idaho. Residents have reported birds acting strangely. Wildlife officials...

Golden eagles that spend their winters in western Montana are overwhelmingly exposed to lead contamination. “Almost the entire population has been exposed to lead,” said Robert Domenech, executive director of...

Increasing frequency and length of snow droughts in Washington state may be linked to hoary marmot population declines. “Hoary marmots are one of many subnivean species that may be stressed...

The loud sounds bearded seals emit underwater may not be noisy enough to overcome the sound from increasing industrial activities off the coast of Alaska. Recent research highlighted how bearded...

The shrubsteppe of central Washington’s Columbia Basin is a land of rich biodiversity. Here, at the northern extent of the great “Sagebrush Sea” that once sprawled across much of the...

For wolf packs in Idaho and Alberta, immigration from other areas doesn’t compensate for their losses. “There was very little immigration, even though harvest was removing individuals,” said Sarah Bassing,...

Murre colonies that experienced die-offs in the Bering and Chukschi seas off the coast of Alaska in 2018 also experienced reproductive failure. “The majority of colonies that we surveyed in...

Mountain lion predation is the main cause of death in young elk calves in western central Montana, but increased harvest on the big cats can result in larger ungulate population...

It’s a mystery of reintroduction. When Alaskan sea otters were moved from a nuclear testing site in the Aleutian Islands to the coasts of Washington and Oregon, the two translocated...