eDNA can root out hidden Louisiana pinesnakes
The best way to track down a cryptic pinsesnake may be searching for trace DNA left in the soil around its prey. Louisiana pinesnakes are notoriously hard to find, ...
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JWM: Strictly regulated gator harvest boosts their numbers
Can killing animals within a population actually save that same population? The question might sound a little ludicrous, but as Mark Merchant, a biochemistry ...
Watch: Efforts under way to restore Louisiana pelican rookery
Louisiana’s Breton Island is a tiny piece of land in the Gulf of Mexico, but it plays an important role for nesting pelicans and other seabirds. Coastal ...
Work begins to expand Louisiana pelican rookery
Coastal restoration efforts have begun on an important island for pelicans and other seabirds in Louisiana. The project would more than double the size of North ...
JWM: Cormorant control reduces fish farm predation
Cormorants spend less time eating catfish at aquaculture farms on the lower Mississippi River floodplain in years when lethal control measures are permitted. ...
Watch: Biologists work to sustain disappearing Texas bird
About 1 million Attwater’s prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) once occupied the coastal prairies of Texas and Lousiana. Now, less than 1 percent ...
Oil spill funds aid Louisiana rookery
Cleanup funds from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill are rebuilding a pelican rookery on a barrier island off the Louisiana coast. Queen Bess Island supports the ...
Hybrids — and maybe a full red wolf — found in former range
Red wolves (Canis rufus) were thought to be extinct in the wild, outside of a reintroduced population in North Carolina. But a pair of recent studies have found ...
Airstrip to land at Louisiana refuge
Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Grand Isle Independent Levee District are planning to build an airstrip on the Elmer’s Island ...
U.S. appeals court will not rehear dusky gopher frog case
On Feb. 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied a petition filed by a group of Louisiana timber and commercial development businesses for a full ...