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Lesser prairie-chicken translocation off to promising start
Wildlife managers are seeing initial success after three years of translocating more than 400 lesser prairie-chickens into a sagebrush prairie environment straddling Kansas and Colorado. “Everybody’s still very excited, still...
Proposed rule exempts Tongass from logging restrictions
More than 9 million acres of roadless area in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest could become open to potential logging. The U.S. Forest Service proposed exempting Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from...
Scientists support Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
More than 1,000 scientists from around the country signed a letter organized by The Wildlife Society and other members of the Alliance for America’s Fish and Wildlife in support of the...
JWM: Grizzly deaths along tracks occur in surprising places
Grizzlies in western Canada may need to look both ways before they cross the train tracks. Although grizzlies (Ursus arctos horribilis) have often been witnessed alongside the rails seeking grain...
Council Meeting News and Notes
The Wildlife Society Council held two meetings in Reno prior to and during the joint conference with the American Fisheries Society. The major actions and discussion topics from those meetings...
Wildlife license plates — where are we now?
Wildlife license plates — where are we now? By Rhiannon Jakopak, Legislative Affairs Committee Chair October 1, 2019 Wildlife-vehicle collisions are a seemingly inevitable, and often devastating, part of living...
Southern mountain caribou listed under the ESA
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service classified the recently extirpated southern mountain population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in parts of Idaho and Washington state as endangered under the...
Working group explores equid management at annual conference
With the 2019 TWS-AFS Annual Conference taking place in Reno, Nevada — the heart of feral horse country — members of the TWS Rangeland Wildlife Working Group have been working...
Watch: Kirtland’s warbler is endangered no more
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed the Kirtland’s warbler from the endangered species list, marking a recovery of the bird that went from just 167 nesting pairs in...