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Texas student chapters engage on RAWA
The board of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society used a portion of the 2018-2019 Jim Teer Leadership Institute for Early Career Professional Training to work with Texas Chapter...
JWM: New moose count doubles eastern Washington estimates
Counting moose (Alces alces) isn’t an easy task. It helps to have a helicopter, but even then, the moose blend in with the ground and disappear under tree canopies. That...
Colorado student chapters new and old celebrate busy fall semesters
This article originally appears in the Colorado Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s December 2018 newsletter. Photos of student chapter activities are also available in the newsletter. Colorado State University Student...
Hybrids — and maybe a full red wolf — found in former range
Red wolves (Canis rufus) were thought to be extinct in the wild, outside of a reintroduced population in North Carolina. But a pair of recent studies have found coyote (Canis...
Oklahoma student chapters engage with local organizations
This article originally appears in the Oklahoma Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s newsletter (Volume 44). Photos of student chapter activities are also included in the newsletter. Oklahoma State University Student...
BLM unveils revisions to sage-grouse conservation plans
The Bureau of Land Management has released the final environmental impact statement and proposed plan amendments for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation on public land in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah...
WSB: At Shenandoah, park visitors and woodrats coexist
The Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister) is threatened or endangered across much of its geographic range, but it’s found a refuge in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, which has plenty of rocky...
Corralling a capybara – in Massachusetts?
In early November while conducting a wildlife survey at a western Massachusetts airbase, I was surprised to see a capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) grazing in the grass on a secured recreational-use...
JWM: Gene diversity high in Missouri deer
Some 1.4 million white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) roam in Missouri today, but less than a century ago, their numbers had dwindled to the verge of extirpation. It would be understandable,...
JWM: Unmanaged, nonnative macaques boom in Florida park
A population of nonnative rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) introduced in central Florida is set to double by 2022 unless steps are taken to reduce it, biologists found. But dealing with...