States sue over plan to drill in Alaska refuge
Fifteen U.S. states joined together challenge the Trump administration’s decision to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil ...
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Beaver engineering may speed up Alaska’s permafrost loss
Beavers are expanding their ranges deeper into Alaska, and their ecosystem engineering may be speeding up the melting of Alaska’s permafrost. “One major take ...
JWM: Shorebirds take advantage of Alaska military lands
It’s natural for researchers to focus on the coast when studying shorebirds, but when Ellen Martin was studying them in Alaska as a master’s student at Colorado ...
BLM authorizes increased oil and gas drilling in Alaska reserve
The Bureau of Land Management will allow increased oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The BLM released a final Environmental Impact ...
Wild Cam: Shrub expansion draws moose northward
Jiake Zhou and three of his colleagues traveled 16 days on inflatable rubber boats in the northern Alaskan wilderness without seeing any other human, with nothing ...
Court halts road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge
A federal judge halted a proposed land exchange last week in Alaska that would allow for the construction of a 12-mile gravel road through the Izembek National ...
Interior lifts hunting restrictions on Alaska preserves
The Department of the Interior announced last week that it would amend regulations regarding hunting and trapping in Alaska’s national preserves by allowing some ...
TWS says seeking comment on ANWR study ‘politicizes science’
The Wildlife Society is criticizing a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to seek public comment on a study from one of its journals on oil exploration ...
JWM: Delaying seismic surveying better for polar bear dens
Oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s North Slope would disturb fewer maternal denning polar bear mothers if start times are delayed during bear maternal denning ...
The February issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management
The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading ...