Geese Management Protects Sensitive Vegetation in N.J.
The Maurice River and tributaries in Cumberland County, New Jersey represent an important tidal freshwater habitat for critical emergent vegetation and migrating birds. This vegetation — including wild rice (Zizania...
Threatened Desert Tortoises Good at Weathering Wildfires
The wildfires occurring with increasing frequency in the Mojave Desert don’t have much of an effect on desert tortoises, according to new research. “The thing about tortoises is they’re resilient...
Conserving Forest Biological Diversity – from The Wildlife Professional
From the summer 2015 issue of The Wildlife Professional How the Montreal Process Helps Achieve Sustainability Forests support a variety of ecosystems, species and genes — collectively referred to as...
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House Cats Avoid Coyote Haunts: Wild Cam Series
There’s a trick to conserving nine lives, and a new camera trap study shows that it may involve domestic felines having prudence when it comes to keeping out of coyote...
Video: Citizen Scientists Help Educate About Endangered Bat
Kirsten Bohn had just moved to Miami to begin working as an assistant research professor at Florida International University. It had been a few days after she had settled into...
Overfishing, Climate Change Push Mexican Seabirds North
Climate change and overfishing is pushing a colony of seabirds from their native Mexican nesting grounds into California. “The problem for the elegant terns is not only the temperature anomalies...
Limited Hunting of Florida Black Bears Passed
After a great deal of discussion and debate, last week the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted in favor of limited bear hunting in the state. The new...
Finalized EIS for National Feral Swine Management
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced the availability of its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Feral Swine Damage Management Program. Working with its Wildlife Damage Management...
Researchers Survey Alaskan Native Bumble Bees
It had been almost 50 years since researchers last recorded data about native bumble bees in Alaska. But in a recent study, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and...
