Tag: TWS 2022

summer tanager
January 20, 2023

Research on human impact on Appalachian songbirds earns student award

As climate and land use changes take place throughout the Appalachians, researchers are watching how different species will react. Hannah Clipp, a PhD candidate at the West Virginia Cooperative Fish...

pallas cat
January 19, 2023

Wild Cam: Mongolian wolves, marmots and a feral dog challenge

The wild montane regions of Mongolia are home to a diverse group of mammals, including ibex, one of the largest marmot species on the planet, furry Pallas’s cats and corsac...

January 5, 2023

Best Student Poster explores the role of ticks in CWD transmission

As chronic wasting disease continues to spread through cervid populations in North America, scientists still don’t know exactly how the disease is spreading so rapidly and broadly. But when Heather...

January 4, 2023

TWS2022: Pesticides may inhibit blue crab survival

A common pesticide could change physiology and behavior of blue crabs when waterways carry it down to coastal estuaries, which can have larger effects on the ecosystem. Fipronil is used...

December 20, 2022

TWS2022: Fishers in northeast exposed to rodenticides

When researchers were studying fisher survival and reproduction in New York state using radio collars, they noticed individuals that were otherwise healthy had died from relatively minor injuries or failed...

November 11, 2022

TWS wraps up another successful Annual Conference

The Wildlife Society concluded its Annual Conference on Thursday—its first in-person conference in three years. Some 2,000 wildlifers from across the country and around the world turned out for the...

November 9, 2022

TWS2022: A salve for conservation wounds

The best way to heal the wounds of ecological degradation is through storytelling and political involvement, 2021 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award recipient Mike Phillips told wildlifers in his keynote speech...

November 8, 2022

TWS2022: TWS continues to ‘invest in wildlife professionals’

At the first in-person conference in three years, The Wildlife Society leadership reflected on the changes that have taken place since the Society had last met together—a period that brought...

November 8, 2022

TWS2022: Speakers hail need for salmon restoration at plenary

The Wildlife Society kicked off its 2022 Annual Conference in Spokane on Monday with a focus on dam removal to restore healthy, salmon-fueled ecosystems throughout the Upper Columbia River Basin....

October 19, 2022

Meet our sponsors—Part 2!

The Wildlife Society’s Annual Conference would not be possible without the support of our sponsors and year-round partners. We’d like to thank our sponsors listed below. Please take a moment to check...