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July 24, 2020

Court upholds BLM’s management of wild horses

A federal appeals court recently upheld the Bureau of Land Management’s decisions to help control populations of wild horses and burros, in two separate cases decided earlier this month. The...

July 24, 2020

TWS says analyses on new MBTA rule are inadequate

The Wildlife Society recently determined that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s draft environmental impact statement accompanying a proposed rule that would limit enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act...

July 22, 2020

JWM: Shorebirds take advantage of Alaska military lands

It’s natural for researchers to focus on the coast when studying shorebirds, but when Ellen Martin was studying them in Alaska as a master’s student at Colorado State University, she...

July 21, 2020

Bird evolution may not keep up with climate change

Short-term changes in birds’ body shapes may not indicate an ability to evolve with the fast pace of modern climate change. Researchers recently compared fossils of relatively small birds from...

July 21, 2020

Air Force vies for more control of a Nevada refuge

A controversial provision in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act would grant the U.S. Air Force control over an additional 840,000 acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge...

July 20, 2020

Tom Ryder earns 2020 Honorary Membership

Tom Ryder was in his first year in college when he first learned about The Wildlife Society. “I stumbled across this gray journal in the dusty old bookshelves of the...

July 15, 2020

DNA analysis can help e-rat-ication efforts on Haida Gwaii

Rats have wreaked havoc on seabird populations nesting in the remote Haida Gwaii archipelago off the northwest coast of British Columbia for centuries. First introduced by European ships in the...

July 14, 2020

Waterfowl and working lands

This article originally appeared Ducks Unlimited magazine. From the Central Valley of California to the Chesapeake Bay, partnerships make it possible for Ducks Unlimited to conserve wetlands and fill the...

July 14, 2020

Thermal imaging reveals shrinking bison mechanisms

As bison take in more and more heat as a result of climate change, their bodies are becoming smaller and smaller, since they’re putting their energy toward keeping cool rather...

July 13, 2020

APHIS offers grants for states and tribes to address CWD

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is offering up to $3.5 million for state and tribal governments to carry out research and management activities to...