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2020 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards Committee shortlists announced
The 2020 Wildlife Publication Awards Committee has named five books to shortlists in the authored and edited book categories and five papers in the journal and monograph categories. In an...
Interior begins reopening agencies and facilities
In a memo dated April 30, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt informed Interior employees that, pursuant to the administration’s Opening Up America Again plan, the department would begin “transitioning...
High levels of novel chemicals found in Great Lakes eagles
For bald eagles nesting close to the shores of the Great Lakes, high chemical levels — including compounds previously found in the species and new or emerging ones — may...
USFWS revises critical habitat proposals for garters, cuckoo
Critical habitat designations that would reduce the critical habitat for two species of garter snakes in the southwestern United States are moving forward — seven years after being originally proposed....
Automated recorders detect secretive marsh birds
Standing over a foot tall and covered in brown mottled feathers, the king rail is hard to track down amid the marshy reeds where it spends most of its time....
‘Deep evolutionary history’ binds bats and coronaviruses
Bats and coronaviruses have been evolving together for millions of years, researchers have found, resulting different strains in different groups of bats around the world. “We found that there’s a...
Imperiled mountain plovers use prairie dog colony edges
In Wyoming’s Thunder Basin National Grassland, imperiled mountain plovers choose nesting habitats on the edges of black-tailed prairie dog colonies, researchers found. The grassland plover species is known to nest...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to review Mexican wolf management
In response to a 2018 court order, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will review its Mexican gray wolf management by preparing a supplement to their 2014 environmental impact statement....
WS to launch nonlethal predation management projects
USDA-Wildlife Services has identified 12 states where it will implement nonlethal strategies to reduce or prevent depredation on livestock by wildlife. The fiscal year 2020 budget allocated $1.38 million for...
Seventy-five species to be added to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add 75 species to the list of bird species covered by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The agency will also remove eight species....