House subcommittee discusses Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
At a hearing held by the Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Subcommittee of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee last week, legislators expressed their support for the passage of Recovering America’s...
Steve Demarais wins Caesar Kleberg Award
For Steve Demarais, putting wildlife science into practice has been the most important. That has meant closely tracking forestry treatments for decades of his career to figure out the best...
Do polar bears wield ice blocks to kill walruses?
In the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland, Inuit have told stories for centuries of polar bears using rocks and blocks of ice to bludgeon walruses to death. Naturalists discounted such...
A fifth of the world’s skinks face extinction
Agriculture, invasive species, harvesting and pet trade are threatening 20% of the world’s skink species with extinction. According to the first “comprehensive evaluation” of the world’s 1,714 described skink species,...
The average size of Central Florida’s sea turtles is shrinking. But why?
Green and loggerhead sea turtles that nest in central Florida are smaller overall on average than they were four decades ago. But researchers aren’t sure why. Katrina Phillips, a PhD...
Migratory Bird Protection Act reintroduced
The Migratory Bird Protection Act, legislation that would provide a path forward in public-private migratory species conservation work, has been reintroduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. Reps. Alan Lowenthal...
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Special election to choose new Northeast representative
A special election is scheduled to elect a new Northeast representative to TWS Council. TWS members Duane Diefenbach and Tim Green are running for the seat, which is being vacated...
Protecting planes that don’t ever fly
It isn’t unusual for Wildlife Services airport biologists to be working at military airbases assisting in efforts to keep aviation personnel and assets, as well as birds, safe from bird/aircraft...
Conifer removal improves sage-grouse habitat
The removal of woodlands encroaching on sagebrush habitat in the Great Basin area could improve suitability for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Researchers ran models to predict the impact of removing...
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