Fieldnote: Tracking mammal presence through soil DNA
Researchers are using trace residues that mammals leave in soil to better detect which species are present in a given area. “It was really cool yet challenging to ...
California
Warming climate pushes California birds upslope
Over just the past 15 years, migratory passerine songbirds that breed in California have already shifted their range to higher elevations in response to a warming ...
JWM: Museums hold secrets of California’s vanished pronghorn
One hundred years ago, pronghorn roamed the Sonoran Desert in what is now the borderlands between Southern California and northern Baja California in Mexico. Today, ...
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 ...
TWS section and chapter meetings in February
The Wildlife Society’s sections, chapters and working groups hold meetings and workshops throughout the year. The following meetings are currently scheduled in ...
Translocating pesky squirrels can help declining owls
One person’s annoyance can be a declining species’ treasure. Wildlife managers are putting squirrels that are a nuisance to ranchers and other landowners to ...
In California, two tales of mountain lions emerge
California likely has more landscape suitable for mountain lions than any other state, researchers recently found, but half of it consists of unprotected lands ...
Bats are resilient to megafires in the West
As burning from lightning-caused wildfires intensifies in the West, researchers were surprised to find that a number of bats are adapting well to the changes. “We ...
More severe wildfires may decrease northern goshawk habitat
As wildfires become more intense and frequent in the western United States, northern goshawks may be losing important landscapes they rely on in California’s ...
JWM: For spotted owls, missing the trees for the forest
Protecting remaining old growth forests won’t always conserve northern spotted owls, a team of researchers found. Instead, they say, managers may need to zoom in ...