Series: TWS Conference

April 6, 2016

Game bird researcher bags Rusch Memorial scholarship

Nominations for the 2016 Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Research Scholarship will be accepted through May 1. The annual scholarship is open to any graduate student studying upland birds...

March 17, 2016

North Carolina’s sky islands: A step up from the ordinary

Western North Carolina’s remaining red spruce (Picea rubens) and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) forests compose one of the most imperiled ecosystems in the Southern Appalachians. A Pleistocene relict community, these...

March 16, 2016

2016 TWS Council candidates announced

The Nominating Committee of The Wildlife Society announces the candidates for upcoming vacancies on TWS Council. Additional nominees for these positions may be submitted by any Voting Member in good...

March 1, 2016

University course prepares students for annual TWS conference

Aside from their regular classes, students at Purdue University will take a course next fall to help prepare them for The Wildlife Society’s 23rd Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. The...

March 1, 2016

Where the wild plants are

Meat-eater. Coastal resident. Pyromaniac. No, we aren’t describing a typical wildlife biologist in eastern North Carolina (although who are we kidding, the description fits). We are talking about the Venus...

February 25, 2016

President’s podium: A visit to TWS headquarters

I just completed my fourth trip to The Wildlife Society headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. Two trips were made as Section Representative for the North Central Section, one as President-Elect and recently...

February 24, 2016

Four outstanding publications honored by TWS

The Wildlife Publication Awards are one of The Wildlife Society’s oldest awards, first presented in 1940, just three years after the Society’s founding. This award recognizes works of excellence in...

February 23, 2016

TWS 2015 student poster winner: Windfarms and wildlife

Rehabilitation may be a potential form of mitigation for the threats wind farms pose to migratory birds, according to research presented at The Wildlife Society’s 22nd Annual Conference in Winnipeg. “Wind farms...

February 11, 2016

Student poster project: Landscape factors influence CWD transmission

Understanding gene flow among white-tailed deer might help state agencies manage chronic wasting disease (CWD), a lethal neurological disease affecting deer, according to a study presented at The Wildlife Society’s...

February 5, 2016

Graduate student’s prairie chicken research wins first place

Graduate student Matthew Broadway took home first place in the master’s category for poster presentations at The Wildlife Society’s 22nd Annual Conference last October. He is a student at the...