Illegal cannabis farms pose danger for at-risk wildlife
In 2015, biologists Greta Wengert and Mourad Gabriel were conducting necropsies on fishers—a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act at the ...
Oregon
Watch: Oregon biologists survey for pygmy rabbits
Pygmy rabbits aren’t easy to find, and recent wildfires in Oregon raise questions about effects on their isolated populations. Recently, biologists with the ...
To solve sea otter riddle, researchers look to archaeology
It’s a mystery of reintroduction. When Alaskan sea otters were moved from a nuclear testing site in the Aleutian Islands to the coasts of Washington and Oregon, ...
Could more crossings help West Coast wildlife?
Highway 97 runs from California to the Canadian border along the spine of the Cascades. It crosses elk (Cervus canadensis), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and ...
Listening in to help monitor northern spotted owls
By listening to sounds collected from recording devices in the forest, researchers can detect northern spotted owls and invasive barred owls, which can help with ...
Public lands wrestle with COVID-19 response
State and federal public land agencies are wrestling with how to respond to the new coronavirus after initial federal efforts intended to offer “an antidote to ...
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 ...
A banner year for western snowy plover fledglings
The summer of 2019 on the Oregon coast resulted in the second highest number of western snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) fledglings in the recovery ...
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 ...
Researchers discover hummingbird hybrid zone
Two closely related species — Allen’s (Selasphorus sasin) and rufous hummingbirds (S. rufus) — are interbreeding in a newly discovered hybrid zone spanning ...