Video: NASA Helps Survey Bald Eagles
Three times a year, NASA aircraft operations use one of NASA’s helicopters to conduct eagle flights with environmental ecologists to keep tabs on eagle nests. Although the bald eagle population...
BLM Solicits Public Input on New Planning Initiative
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the process of drafting a proposed rule for part of its Planning 2.0 Initiative. Planning 2.0 is the agency’s strategy to streamline...
Senators Reintroduce Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Bill
Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico), along with a group of four other bipartisan co-sponsors, recently introduced S. 405, The Bipartisan Sportsmen Act of 2015. The bill...
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The Conservation Affairs Network Builds a Stronger TWS
The Wildlife Society is taking steps to strengthen connections between its sections, chapters, and headquarters. “The individual units of The Wildlife Society are not as connected as they need to...
Officials Consider Limited Bear Hunts in Florida
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission met in Jacksonville last week to discuss black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) management strategies to help reduce human-bear conflicts. At the meeting, commissioners...
Nebraska Game and Parks Tracks Mountain Lions
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission field staff recently started a four-year research project to place GPS tracking collars on mountain lions. As part of the effort, biologists will track...
Illegal Weed Plantations May Affect Owl Recovery
Illegal marijuana plantations may not lead to high times for the recovery of a species of threatened owls, according to researchers. The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is currently...
TWS Backs Effort Demanding Halt on Old Growth Logging
The Wildlife Society has joined with six other scientific societies on a campaign to prompt the Obama administration to halt old-growth forest logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska....
Idaho Student Chapter Educates Community
The University of Idaho Student Chapter of TWS participated in numerous educational opportunities during this past fall semester. Student members assisted the Idaho Department of Fish and Game with several...
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