Tag: tribes

June 16, 2022

Tribes help bring back declining caribou herd

If it weren’t for West Moberly First Nations and Salteau First Nations, the Klinse-Za caribou herd in central Columbia may not even exist anymore. The number of Klinse-Za southern mountain...

May 26, 2022

TWS supports ITEK in federal policymaking

Guided by the Native Peoples’ Wildlife Management Working Group, The Wildlife Society recently provided suggestions to implement Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge in U.S. federal policy making. Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge...

January 7, 2022

Bison herd grows on Sitkalidak Island

As the Sitkalidak Island bison herd continues to grow in the western Gulf of Alaska, wildlife biologists and community members are setting out to learn more about the herd in...

March 10, 2021

RAWA offers tribes major increase in conservation dollars

Passing the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act could be significant for state wildlife conservation efforts, but it could be transformative for tribal programs, drastically increasing the federal funds they currently receive....

December 1, 2020

‘Twenty years of conservation success’

States have long been able to count on federal funding for game management. But 20 years ago, Congress realized, it was a different story for thousands of non-hunted species and...

November 25, 2019

Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act introduced

Last week, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. and Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., introduced the Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019 (S. 2891/H.R. 5179), which would support federally designated American Indian tribes...