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Got Blood? WY-TWS and Maven Partner to Help Manage Brucellosis in Wyoming
Got Blood? WY-TWS and Maven Partner to Help Inform Management of Brucellosis By Eric Maichak, Past-President and current President-Elect Brucellosis is a bacterial disease infecting elk and bison populations of the...
Bird lover’s board game soars in popularity
What do spreadsheets, birds, and board games have in common? They came together in Wingspan, a board game based on serious science that has become a phenomenon among board gamers....
With introduced species, charisma makes it complicated
It’s easy to get the public to accept strict management policies on zebra mussels. But wild horses? That’s another story. Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and universities in the...
BLM to return some horses to range in Oregon
Last fall, the Bureau of Land Management gathered 845 wild horses and burros from the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in central Oregon as part of a sterilization research project. The...
Student Presentation: Using acoustics to deter bats from wind turbines
Prey species such as tiger moths (Arctia caja) often use acoustics to deter approaching bats. But can people do the same thing? Sara Weaver, a doctoral candidate at Texas State...
JWM: Should more lethal take be allowed for black vultures?
For decades, black vulture (Coragyps atratus) numbers have been on the rise in the United States. As their populations have grown and their range has expanded, conflicts with humans have...
Study: States outdo Congress in pollinator conservation laws
States are passing more legislation relating to pollinator conservation than the federal government, researchers found, but they say more laws are needed. In a study published in Environmental Science and Policy,...
Senate committee examines threat of invasive species
On Feb. 13, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held on a hearing on The Invasive Species Threat: Protecting Wildlife, Public Health and Infrastructure. After opening statements by Sen....
Senate reauthorizes LWCF, conservation programs
Picking up after its debates on the legislation package in December, the Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47). This bipartisan package contains more than 100 different bills...
Could more private land conservation reverse bird declines?
Throughout rural Illinois, more than 140,000 acres of farmland have been conserved for wildlife. That’s about as much as one-third the acreage of public land in the state. Like similar...