BLM engages fourth-graders with BioBlast
Fourth-grade students from a Utah elementary school piled off the bus into the Wasatch National Forest, where different nature learning stations awaited them. These ...
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For bee abundance, look to Beehive State
If you’re looking for bees, look no further than the Beehive State. Utah has more bee species than most states in the nation, researchers found. One out of every ...
NASA satellite data paints picture of Southwestern wildlife
When most people think of NASA, they think of its space sciences wing. But researchers recently used satellite imagery as part of NASA’s earth sciences division ...
Zion bighorns diagnosed with pneumonia
Officials at Utah’s Zion National Park are asking visitors to listen for coughing bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelson). Biologists have say it could be a sign ...
Utah desert wetlands abundant with migrating birds
As the water in Utah’s Pariette Wetlands evaporates in the June heat, manager Darren Williams wonders what its future holds. Encompassing 9,204 acres, including ...
USU Student Chapter focuses on research
The following student chapter news was included in the Spring 2018 newsletter of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society. Photos of student ...
BLM partners monitor Utah hummingbirds
Since 2009, the Bureau of Land Management has been working with partners in southern Utah to take on a very big (and in some ways, very small) project. The BLM, ...
WSB: Mule deer prefer tulips in the spring
What’s a mule deer’s (Odocoileus hemionus) favorite spring snack? Researchers tackled this question to help homeowners determine which flowers to plant to avoid ...
Trump reduces Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments
Appearing in Utah on Monday, President Donald Trump shrank the size of two of the state’s national monuments by about 2 million acres. Trump decreased Bears Ears ...
Zion National Park requests comments on bighorn sheep
Zion National Park and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources have opened a public review and comment period for the environmental assessment (EA) on the proposed ...