Tag: Colorado

The Western State Colorado University Student Chapter is rapidly approaching the end of an unnaturally mild and dry winter in Gunnison and has had a successful first half of the...

Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Winter 2017 newsletter. The...

Millions of recreationists take to the trails of America’s natural spaces every year to hike, bike, ski and picnic, but even if they take only photographs and leave only footprints,...

Bumblebees gather pollen twice as fast as honeybees, but new research from Colorado suggests that climate change may be straining the wildflowers available to bumblebees and threatening their populations’ survival....

In Dec. 2016, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) approved two predator management plans in the state – the Piceance Basin Predator Management Plan and Upper Arkansas River Predator...

A six-year study of black bears (Ursus americanus) in Colorado sheds new light on the roots of human-bear conflicts and could lead to changes in how bears are managed to...

In the first-known study to examine the long-term effects of tree removal in northwestern Colorado on bird habitat, researchers found fundamental changes in the bird community. The findings suggest that...

Wildlife managers at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department knew the dead wolverine was special even before they performed a necropsy. It was the first wolverine (Gulo gulo) reported...

Lynx are making good use of some sections of forest impacted by spruce beetles, according to ongoing research. “The notion before we started the study was that it was possibly...

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission issued objections last week to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan to introduce endangered Mexican wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) into the state. The...