Tag: Southeast

Graduate students at Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment have turned their love of wildlife into a project to turn young people on to conservation. They created the...

Coming across a Northern pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus) is a pretty rare event, so it’s easy to understand wildlife enthusiast Christian Cave’s excitement when he came across one in southern...

Over the 50 years since mottled ducks were introduced to South Carolina, the results have been mixed. Hunters and others certainly like having them around, but their influence on the...

Invasive brown anoles might outcompete their native cousins in the southeastern U.S. merely by living more densely. Brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) inadvertently came to Florida in the 1800s by tagging...

The South’s winter storm not caused problems for people left without heat and power. It also wreaked havoc with wildlife. Rehabilitation specialists took in stranded bats. Volunteers rallied to rescue...

Do you have an idea for an educational or training session at The Wildlife Society’s 2020 Annual Conference? If so, there’s only a short time left to submit it! Our...

The Wildlife Society invites you to submit abstracts for presentations at the 2020 Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky! The call is open now through April 17, 2020, and includes oral...

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 coyote (Canis...

As climate change warms the planet, algal blooms may leave lakes throughout the United States covered with scum, harming aquatic ecosystems and interfering with people’s enjoyment of the water. “If...

Soybean farmers tend to think white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are major culprits behind lost yields. A new study conducted in Mississippi, however, points to other detrimental factors related to the...