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Montana FWP’s Alan Wood receives Distinguished Service Award
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Science Program Supervisor Alan Wood received the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Distinguished Service Award for 2020 in recognition for more than three decades...
Amid pandemic, bat biologists change course
COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Biologists in Arizona became concerned last...
Working to clear Illinois of feral swine
In late March, Wildlife Services in Illinois conducted the first aerial control operations for feral swine in Illinois since 2014. Using an agency helicopter based in Oklahoma, a crew of...
COVID-19 concerns may halt bat fieldwork
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is recommending that wildlife biologists suspend fieldwork that involves capturing or handling bats because they’re concerned about the novel coronavirus passing from researchers to...
Arizona chapter hosting workshop for students and young professionals
This update originally appears in the Arizona Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Winter 2020 newsletter. The Arizona Chapter of The Wildlife Society is hosting a wildlife techniques workshop April 18,...
Half of Arctic shorebirds are declining; waterfowl flourish
Across the circumpolar north, some Arctic tundra birds, such as waterfowl, seem to be flourishing while others, like most shorebirds, are seeing their populations fall, according to new research spanning...
Why are bats such vectors for diseases?
As the new coronavirus rapidly spreads throughout China and around the world, scientists are indicating that the virus likely originated in bats. Specifically, they suggest, it probably game from the...
Survey shows U.S. citizens increasingly humanize animals
When a dentist from Minnesota killed Cecil the Lion in 2015, a controversial fallout divided many people in the wildlife community over questions of conservation and the tendency for some...
Bats shy away from artificial cave light
The increasing use of artificial light in and around caves can have a negative effect on cave-dwelling bats. “[Light] has very traumatic influences on all kinds of wildlife,” said Holger...
Here’s what’s happening in the North Central Section Part 3
Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Spring 2019 newsletter. The newsletter includes updates from...