TWS section and chapter meetings in February
The Wildlife Society’s sections, chapters and working groups hold meetings and workshops throughout the year. The following meetings are currently scheduled in ...
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Colorado student chapters reflect on eventful fall
These updates originally appear in the Colorado Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Winter 2019 newsletter. Photos highlighting the student chapter’s activities ...
Watch: Desert rattlers harvest water from their backs
During rainstorms in the desert Southwest, some rattlesnakes, like the western diamondback (Crotalus atrox), emerge to harvest raindrops on the scales on their ...
Are wildlifers’ values changing?
When TWS members conducted a study in 1998 to assess what wildlife conservation professionals, including TWS members, valued, they were already detecting a ...
Administration releases changes to NEPA policy
The White House released proposed changes to the regulations to implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, which would limit the situations that require ...
Using satellites to monitor whales
Could satellites help conserve whales? Boston’s New England Aquarium and the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based engineering firm Draper are teaming up for a project ...
Humans not directly responsible for North American reptile deaths
Humans aren’t directly to blame for most North American reptile deaths, according to a large new meta-study that examines a host of research in the United States ...
Survey shows U.S. citizens increasingly humanize animals
When a dentist from Minnesota killed Cecil the Lion in 2015, a controversial fallout divided many people in the wildlife community over questions of conservation ...
Sierra Nevada red fox population proposed as endangered
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing a population of the Sierra Nevada red fox as endangered. A subspecies of the red fox, the Sierra Nevada red ...
Translocating pesky squirrels can help declining owls
One person’s annoyance can be a declining species’ treasure. Wildlife managers are putting squirrels that are a nuisance to ranchers and other landowners to ...