July issue of JWM and new Wildlife Monograph now online
The July 2016 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 80.5) contains the latest research reports on management and conservation, habitat relations, population ecology and quantitative approaches. In this...
JWM Study: Less forest thinning can benefit martens
Pacific martens had never been tracked by GPS collars in the high elevation forests they occupy — until recently. As part of a recent study published in the Journal of...
The Wildlife Professional’s special issue on State Wildlife Action Plans now online
The Cost of Conservation — Priceless A few years ago, an advertising campaign for a credit card company featured a series of commercials with the heart-warming theme, the best things...
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Announcing the May issue of JWM
The May 2016 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 80.4) contains 10 papers on topics in wildlife management and conservation, habitat relations, population ecology and quantitative approaches as...
Snow leopards may eat more big animals than previously thought
Snow leopards eat a lot more big ungulates than researchers may think, according to a new study. Snow leopards are notoriously elusive — one member of The Wildlife Society has...
Announcing the March 2016 issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin
The March 2016 issue (Vol. 40.1) contains 25 papers on a wide array of subjects including a special section titled “Risks Posed by Captive Cervids” that developed from a special...
JWM study: Elk habitat overlaps with likely anthrax outbreaks
Anthrax, a deadly spore-forming bacterial disease, has been around for quite some time. In fact, it’s one of the first diseases that a vaccine was developed for in the 1930s....
What’s on the menu for Allegheny woodrats?
It’s difficult for a population to persist when its main food source has disappeared. Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma magister) faced this firsthand when American chestnuts were extirpated and forests transitioned to...
Social attraction entices cormorants away from fisheries
Wildlife managers battling to keep double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) from devastating juvenile fish populations might want to try something that waterfowl hunters use all the time: decoys. In a study...
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