North Central Section happenings – Part 3
This article originally appears in the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2018 newsletter. The newsletter includes updates from the Central ...
Michigan
WSB: Personal benefits help attract citizen scientists
Researchers in Michigan found that citizen scientists were more likely to use a recently launched citizen science phone app when they saw personal benefits from ...
Here’s what’s happening in the North Central Section
Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Spring 2018 ...
Farms and vanishing snow bring opossums north
When an opossum turned up shot by an arrow in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Lisa Walsh, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, decided to drive up to check it ...
Student research project: Even limited urbanization affects bird biodiversity
Towns are few and far between amid the forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but even these small amounts of urbanization can affect the biodiversity of bird ...
Student research project: CWD spreads east in Michigan
Since wildlife managers first detected chronic wasting disease among southern Michigan’s wild deer populations in 2015, they have detected 11 more cases, all ...
Michigan expands CWD management zone
The spread of chronic wasting disease — a deadly neurological disease in deer and other cervids — into more counties in Michigan has caused the Michigan Natural ...
CWD Continues to Spread in Michigan
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is awaiting confirmation that a fifth deer in the state has tested positive for chronic wasting disease — a fatal ...
Michigan Member Honored by MDOT
On Nov. 12, the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics Commission presented its Award of Excellence to Pete Butchko, CWB® and Michigan TWS chapter ...
Michigan Deer Hunters Help State Tackle Chronic Wasting Disease
With deer hunting season underway in Michigan, hunters are beginning to help the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in their efforts to test deer for chronic ...