Site Visit Insights: A habitat restoration transformation
Site visits are critical to helping scientists learn more about species and their habitats. The trips often take them into areas most people do not have a chance to ...
California
For northern spotted owls, habitat loss still matters
As barred owls (Strix varia) have moved in and taken over threatened northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) territory on the West Coast, management has ...
Tracking sea otter tool use to inform conservation
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) biologists have combined forces with archaeologists to develop new ways to track past activity of the marine mammals. The collaboration ...
Video: Rains cause painted ladies to linger in California
Heavy desert rainfall has been keeping large swarms of painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterflies in California, delaying their migration. These clouds of ...
San Joaquin Valley Chapter hosts California condor field trip
This article originally appears in the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s March 2019 newsletter. Photos from the field trip are also included ...
Western Section to hold California botany workshop
The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will host a California Botany for Wildlifers workshop May 1 to 4 in Santa Barbara, California. The goal of this ...
WSB: Mapping a species’ future through climate change
For wildlife managers, conserving habitat for endangered species in the midst of climate change can be a moving target. As conditions change on the ground, the ...
Site Visit Insights: Spotting elusive leopard lizards
Site visits are critical to helping scientists learn more about species and their habitats. The trips often take them into areas most people do not have a chance ...
Coyotes with blue-eyed mutation show up in California
Photographers and California residents have spotted and photographed blue-eyed coyotes (Canis latrans) throughout the state, from Sacramento to Santa Cruz. The ...
What doesn’t work for crops may work for endangered lizards
As drought, climate change and increases in soil salinity are causing farmland to become retired in California, the idled lands could provide landscapes for the ...