Tag: Alaska

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 State University, she...

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 Statement for the reserve...

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 but a few guns...

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 Wildlife Refuge. The...

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 harvest methods that were prohibited by...

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 and...

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 periods and if den distribution...

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 scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

Caribou on Alaska’s North Slope continue to avoid oil infrastructure decades after it was put in place, especially during the calving season, according to a recent study This adds to...

Warm water conditions referred to as “The Blob” in the North Pacific Ocean may have prompted the deaths of thousands of common murres in one of the largest seabird die-offs...