Series: TWS Journals

May 24, 2016

JWM Study: Less forest thinning can benefit martens

Pacific martens had never been tracked by GPS collars in the high elevation forests they occupy — until recently. As part of a recent study published in the Journal of...

May 2, 2016

The Wildlife Professional’s special issue on State Wildlife Action Plans now online

The Cost of Conservation — Priceless A few years ago, an advertising campaign for a credit card company featured a series of commercials with the heart-warming theme, the best things...

April 25, 2016

Announcing the May issue of JWM

The May 2016 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 80.4) contains 10 papers on topics in wildlife management and conservation, habitat relations, population ecology and quantitative approaches as...

April 13, 2016

Snow leopards may eat more big animals than previously thought

Snow leopards eat a lot more big ungulates than researchers may think, according to a new study. Snow leopards are notoriously elusive — one member of The Wildlife Society has...

March 29, 2016

Announcing the March 2016 issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin

The March 2016 issue (Vol. 40.1) contains 25 papers on a wide array of subjects including a special section titled “Risks Posed by Captive Cervids” that developed from a special...

March 11, 2016

JWM study: Elk habitat overlaps with likely anthrax outbreaks

Anthrax, a deadly spore-forming bacterial disease, has been around for quite some time. In fact, it’s one of the first diseases that a vaccine was developed for in the 1930s....

March 9, 2016

What’s on the menu for Allegheny woodrats?

It’s difficult for a population to persist when its main food source has disappeared. Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma magister) faced this firsthand when American chestnuts were extirpated and forests transitioned to...

March 7, 2016

Social attraction entices cormorants away from fisheries

Wildlife managers battling to keep double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) from devastating juvenile fish populations might want to try something that waterfowl hunters use all the time: decoys. In a study...

March 2, 2016

The Wildlife Professional March/April issue is online

The latest issue of The Wildlife Professional is now online. Read about ongoing efforts to protect native bee populations in our cover story, Pollinators in Decline. Also learn about how...

February 17, 2016

Announcing the February issue of
The Journal of Wildlife Management

The new JWM, Vol. 80, Issue 2, is now online. Featured in this issue are: Bighorn Sheep and Cattle Grizzly Bear Ecology Sage-Grouse Detectability on Leks Subscribers may view the...