Geographical Location: United States

Many well-known species like polar bears (Ursus maritimus) face immediate threats from climate change. But some wildlife, like populations of coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and coastal giant salamanders (Dicamptodon...

Throughout rural Illinois, more than 140,000 acres of farmland have been conserved for wildlife. That’s about as much as one-third the acreage of public land in the state. Like similar...

Two tagged burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia) in Phoenix, Ariz. hadn’t been seen or detected for seven months on the gravel lot they used for habitat, but one has recently been...

A species of frog that inhabits remote mountain pools in the Pacific Northwest is likely to go extinct by the end of the century, researchers found. The Cascades frog (Rana...

When fire or logging comes to a forest, elk (Cervus canadensis) can usually adapt, but looking at forests in the Rockies, researchers found that elk avoid areas that have been...

Nicholas Gladstone had to crawl through a watery passage in a Tennessee cave to find the species he was looking for, but as it turned out, it found him first....

Citizen science is growing in wildlife biology, providing an inexpensive, efficient way to collect large amounts of data. But how should researchers use it effectively? In a presentation titled, “Population...

This is an exciting year! The Wildlife Society and the American Fisheries Society will hold their first-ever joint conference in Reno, Nevada, Sept. 29–Oct. 3. Proposals for education and training programs,...

It has been over 300 years since Newell’s shearwater (Puffinus newelli) and Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) colonies were detected on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Neither have been found since European...

A bill recently introduced in the Montana state legislature would limit the information that the state’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks can consider while making wildlife policy decisions. If passed,...