Tag: military lands

tws members studying birds
January 23, 2023

Monitoring birds on military land

Researchers will be using a technique called metabarcoding to monitor habitat quality for bird species on Department of Defense instillations. Led by TWS member Jeff Foster, an associated professor at...

July 22, 2020

JWM: Shorebirds take advantage of Alaska military lands

It’s natural for researchers to focus on the coast when studying shorebirds, but when Ellen Martin was studying them in Alaska as a master’s student at Colorado State University, she...

November 3, 2016

Gopher tortoises relocated to Air Force base in Florida

Over the coming year, at least 500 gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) will be moved from a construction area in south Florida to Eglin Air Force Base in the northwest part...