USFWS to issue uncommon eagle take permit for wind project
For only the second time in history, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will issue a five-year take permit to an energy company after finding that the company’s wind project...
Volunteers assemble massive roadkill inventory
Roadkill is sometimes the subject of jokes, but it is no laughing matter to Fraser Shilling. He is co-director of the Road Ecology Center at the University of California at...
Giant rats sniff out illegal pangolin trade
African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys gambianus) have an excellent sense of smell and have previously been used to sniff out landmines and tuberculosis. Now, with funding from the U.S. Fish...
USFWS approves Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially approved a new National Wildlife Refuge in the northeastern United States. The Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge will span up to 15,000...
State-wide camera trap project ready to launch
Roland Kays is a guy with a lot of ideas. His latest one involves deploying camera traps at 20,000 to 30,000 sites in his home state of North Carolina. Kays...
Columbian white-tailed deer downlisted to threatened
On Oct. 13, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Columbian white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus leucurus), a rare subspecies found in the Pacific Northwest, has been downlisted from...
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Remembering two pioneers of wildlife biology
John Craighead, legendary wildlife conservationist and longtime member of The Wildlife Society, recently died just weeks after turning 100. He was considered one of America’s leading scientists, and perhaps best...
Shelterwood harvest is good for lizards, bad for salamanders
A common forestry practice may be bad for salamanders, but good for lizards, according to a recent U.S. Forest Service study published in Forest Ecology and Management. The researchers compared...
TWS member becomes land trust board member
Tammy Colt, a wildlife diversity biologist for the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s southwest region and a TWS member, recently took on a new volunteer role as a board member of the...
