The November issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management
The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading ...
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JWM: Grizzly deaths along tracks occur in surprising places
Grizzlies in western Canada may need to look both ways before they cross the train tracks. Although grizzlies (Ursus arctos horribilis) have often been witnessed ...
‘Battle for survival’ wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year
An hour earlier, the marmot had spotted the fox on the slopes of China’s Qulian Mountains. It raised an alarm, but the fox lay low, waiting. When the marmot ...
Florida panther genome reveals higher genetic diversity
Bringing in Texas pumas in the mid-’90s reduced Florida panther inbreeding and increased the panther’s genetic diversity threefold, researchers found after ...
Council Meeting News and Notes
The Wildlife Society Council held two meetings in Reno prior to and during the joint conference with the American Fisheries Society. The major actions and ...
Wild horse board prepares to meet as BLM gathers more horses
The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet Oct. 29 to 31 to discuss the federal government’s management of select free-roaming horses and burros ...
Watch: Study calls for more protections for emperor penguins
In a recent study published in Biological Conservation, researchers from around the world called for additional protections to conserve the emperor penguin ...
Southern mountain caribou listed under the ESA
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service classified the recently extirpated southern mountain population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in parts of Idaho ...
Lone female of critically endangered bird sighted
A lone female of one of the world’s rarest birds was sighted recently in a Brazil forest reserve. Stresemann’s bristlefront (Merulaxis stresemanni) is listed as ...
Time trumps environment for head-started turtles
Giving turtles a chance to grow in captivity is more important for their future success in the wild than environmental enrichment, according to new research. “It ...