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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...