Geographical Location: Northwest

As gray wolf populations rose in Idaho, hunters became concerned about what those predators on the landscape might mean for elk numbers. As researchers looked into it, they found a...

It was the end of October 2016 when the first reports of dead puffins and auklets began trickling in on the small Pribilof island of St. Paul. Local Aleuts had...

A quarter-century after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) as a threatened species in the Lower 48 states, bears began frequenting the Rocky Mountain...

Curlews keen to feather their nests are best served by choosing areas with lots of other curlews — and lots of cow pies. According to new research, long‐billed curlews (Numenius...

Biologists say a sylvatic plague outbreak that decimated prairie dogs in Montana’s UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge has nearly eliminated the refuge’s black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) population. Biologists counted just...

Invasive species are wriggling their way into the boreal forests of North America, raising concerns that they could convert a landscape known for holding carbon into one that releases it....

To judge by the annual surveys, black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) are on the upswing. After years of decline, aerial counts along their migration routes — between Mexico’s Baja Peninsula...

A threatened species of martens seems to have opted for the Oregon beach life, with plenty of food and a lack of predators. The Pacific marten (Martes caurina) typically lives...

Under a 1971 law, the Eklutna people of Alaska became legal owners of thousands of acres surrounding Anchorage. Through a native corporation, the lands are managed for the economic and...

The hottest flames may bring the most sting when it comes to native bee numbers, according to researchers in Oregon. “We basically found that there were both abundant bee communities...