Geographical Location: Western

While they might seem to occupy distinct ecosystems at first glance, fish and wildlife conservation often overlaps. The American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society recently released a virtual journal...

Elk (Cervus canadensis) aren’t exactly scarce in Arizona, and over the past century, their numbers have continued to grow. Wildlife managers there never had to get an exact count. Herds...

Invasive species are either the culprits or the accomplice in the extinction of some 300 species across the planet, according to new research.  “It tells us that we have quite...

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will host a California Botany for Wildlifers workshop May 1 to 4 in Santa Barbara, California. The goal of this workshop is to equip...

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will host, “Drone technology and regulation” Apr. 9 to 12 in Monterey Co., California. This workshop is designed to provide an overview of unmanned...

The workshop, symposia and panel discussion proposals have been rolling in for a few months now, and now it’s your chance to submit an abstract for the first-ever joint conference...

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...

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...

This article originally appears in the Nevada Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2018/Winter 2019 newsletter. The University of Nevada, Reno Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society entered the fall...