Tag: 2021 TWS Awards

October 29, 2021

Eastern woodcock project takes advantage of federal dollars

When Erik Blomberg went to a regional meeting on upland bird management in 2016, he learned that satellite telemetry was providing some novel insights about American woodcock migration in the...

October 28, 2021

Windels earns McDonough Award

TWS member Steve Windels has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Jim McDonough Award. Windels is a research wildlife biologist at Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota.  He has...

October 4, 2021

Greg Schenbeck recognized for his service with TWS

Greg Schenbeck, has worked with a number of state and federal agencies throughout his career, and he has continued striving to benefit wildlife through his work at The Wildlife Society...

September 14, 2021

Stephen F. Austin Chapter earns award second year in a row

The Stephen F. Austin State University Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society won the Student Chapter of the Year award for the second consecutive year. “To our chapter, I think...

September 9, 2021

Alex Fish receives 2021 Rusch scholarship

Fish is studying American woodcock (Scolopax minor) migration ecology in eastern North America. He helped build a collaborative research team involving 36 governmental, nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations to increase the...

August 17, 2021

Oklahoma wildlife agency wins Diversity Award

Getting inner city children interested in fishing and the great outdoors sometimes just requires the right bait. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s bait wasn’t worms or insects, but NBA...

August 10, 2021

TWS Publications Awards recognize outstanding work

From exploring warbler migration to conflicts between carnivores and livestock, recipients of TWS’ 2021 Wildlife Publications Awards covered a wide range of topics in wildlife conservation and management. Gunnar Kramer,...

August 4, 2021

Steve Demarais wins Caesar Kleberg Award

For Steve Demarais, putting wildlife science into practice has been the most important. That has meant closely tracking forestry treatments for decades of his career to figure out the best...

July 23, 2021

NCWF wins TWS Group Achievement Award

North Carolina is rich with ecological diversity from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks. But taking care of the plethora of wildlife resulting from so many different ecosystems...

July 14, 2021

Mike Phillips first Aldo Leopold winner to hold office

When Michael Phillips was 12 years old in 1970, he recalls flipping through the four channels on his parents’ black and white television and stopping when he got to a...