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Loons to benefit from oil spill settlement
Funds from a legal settlement following a 2003 oil spill are helping reestablish common loons (Gavia immer) in New England. Federal and state agencies are spending $8 million to release...
USFWS announces wetlands and migratory bird grants
This year’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grants through the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act will provide more than $4.8 million in federal funding matched by more than $21 million...
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...
Partners in Flight sees past success, future challenges
In the 1980s, biologists Chan Robbins and John Sauer reached a startling conclusion. Studying data from the Breeding Bird Survey — a project Robbins pioneered — they found birds that...
BLM needs more time, money for wild horse management, report says
It will take 15-18 years to reduce the current population of over 95,000 wild horses and burros to the appropriate management level of about 26,715 animals and doing so will...
Celebrate International Biodiversity Day from your own yard
Go outside, and stand still. Chances are, you’ll see wildlife. From your own yard, you may notice spring warblers flying above, you may see a hummingbird’s impressive courtship display, you...
TWS recommends stimulus funding for wildlife professionals
The Wildlife Society wrote to lawmakers last week urging them to provide the necessary resources to support the work of wildlife professionals responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as...
Interior establishes Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prizes
The U.S. Department of the Interior will be giving out five new prizes for conservation innovations, including one to help control the spread of invasive species. The Theodore Roosevelt Genius...
New bison conservation initiative focuses on genetic diversity
In the 17th and 18th century, North American plains bison (Bison bison bison) nearly went extinct due to unregulated and unsustainable harvest and habitat loss. Across the country today, some...
Venison donations from damage management in a time of need
Last year, USDA’s Wildlife Services donated 138 tons of goose, deer, elk and other meat. Equivalent to more than 1 million servings of protein for people in need, such donations...