Geographical Location: Northwest

June 7, 2022

Washington investigates wolf deaths

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is investigating the deaths of four wolves found in Northeast Washington. Stevens County deputies reported finding the wolves near the Canadian border in...

June 3, 2022

Watch: Biologists take to the sky to look for sage-grouse leks

Sage-grouse don’t stick to the ground and neither do researchers. To find greater sage-grouse leks, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists take to the air by helicopter in search...

May 11, 2022

Listening post monitors for orcas in Puget Sound

Researchers in Washington state are testing an array of hydrophones in Puget Sound to see if the devices can detect the presence of orcas and help ships cut their engines...

May 9, 2022

Native species can tolerate invaders in the lowland floodplains

Invasive bullfrogs and sunfish in the southwestern Washington floodplains don’t seem to be a detriment to native amphibians and fish in the area. That’s surprising, researchers say, since that isn’t...

April 6, 2022

JWM: Fisher reintroduction going well in Olympic Peninsula

In the mid-1900s, fishers were extirpated from Washington state, despite being found historically in various parts of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. But high demand and prices for their pelts in...

April 6, 2022

Oregon hires first poaching prosecutor

The Oregon Department of Justice has hired its first special prosecutor dedicated to enforcing anti-poaching laws. Jay Hall was hired in February as a new assistant attorney general in February....

April 4, 2022

JWM: Prey, harvest and competition dictate wolf pack size

After decades of absence in Montana, wolves began dispersing southward from Canada and ultimately recolonized the state in the 1980s. Translocations into Yellowstone National Park and Idaho in the mid-1990s...

March 10, 2022

Yellowstone aims to cull 900 bison this year

Yellowstone National Park has begun its annual winter removal of bison from the park’s herd in an effort to help sustain the population and reduce spread of disease to livestock,...

February 15, 2022

JWM: For Montana mule deer, is migration worth the effort?

Northwestern Montana is a legendary area for mule deer. Hunters go there to seek out unusually large trophy bucks, which prowl through a more densely forested landscape than mule deer...

January 12, 2022

Interdisciplinary effort to understand caribou challenges

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and Indigenous people are working together to study how climate change and human development are impacting declining caribou herds in Canada and Alaska. The team,...