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Here’s what’s happening in the North Central Section
Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Spring 2018 newsletter. The newsletter includes...
Grants create habitat for pollinators
Tagen Baker’s organic farm in California is bustling with life. It’s not just the historic acres of walnut trees on the property, or the fields of lavender, or the heirloom...
Forest Service, Congress discuss wildfire
Both the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands convened during the first week of June to discuss prospects for the 2018 fire season with...
House Appropriations Committee passes Interior spending bill
The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $35.25 billion spending bill for the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and related agencies for fiscal year 2019. The committee approved the...
Early humans also drove megafaunal extinctions
When humans reached North America 13,000 years ago, 78 species that weighed over a ton vanished in the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction. After scrutinizing the fossil record, a team of...
Birds adapt to novel ecosystems across the world
Conservationists have long called for restoring landscapes as much as possible to the way they were before humans altered them, but they’ve started embracing the idea that nonnative plants can...
Airplane hangar makes poor site for peregrine nest
Every spring in New England seems to bring stories of poorly located raptor nests resulting in conflicts with humans. At Westover Air Reserve Base, Wildlife Services-Massachusetts had its first peregrine...
At Annual Conference’s opening night, wildlife rocks!
The Wildlife Society’s 25th Annual Conference will take place Oct. 7 to 11 in Cleveland, Ohio. Go to twsconference.org for more information. Rock ’n’ roll and wild living may go...
Invasive insects damage bird habitat
Birds that specialize on eastern hemlock forests have been declining as a result of an invasive insect devastating the trees, according to new research. Researchers knew from past studies that...
USFWS proposes expanded hunting opportunities
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a rule that would implement new and expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 30 national wildlife refuges. The proposed opportunities include opening...