Tag: wildlife services

In September, University of North Dakota students in Susan Felege’s wildlife management class —  many of them TWS student chapter members — attended an 8-hour workshop presented by the Wildlife...

Cooperative management partnerships between Wildlife Services-Minnesota and two environmental advocacy organizations reduced wolf presence in human safety and livestock protection situations this summer. Both locations were sites where gray wolves...

Wolves have been live-captured with foothold traps for several decades for research and population monitoring purposes. However, trapping in most areas is limited to the spring, summer and autumn because...

Balancing human health and safety with recovery of threatened and endangered species is a rewarding aspect of Wildlife Services operations across the country. In May, Wildlife Services in Wisconsin addressed...

The transport and release of live feral swine to new areas represents one of the biggest threats to feral swine (Sus scrofa) management. Only roughly half of all states currently...

A quarter-century after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) as a threatened species in the Lower 48 states, bears began frequenting the Rocky Mountain...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recognized “the loss, degradation and fragmentation of migratory bird habitat” as potentially the largest single threat to migratory birds. Human activity contributes to...

As a Wildlife Services airport biologist working at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, I recently heard from an enthusiastic birder, Tony Thacker, who had spotted a red-tailed hawk (Buteo...

Elizabeth Miller, a member-at-large on the Georgia TWS chapter board,has been selected as the 2018 Eastern Region Wildlife Biologist of the Year for the USDA Wildlife Services program. As the...

The impact of the winter’s weather on feral swine control has varied, but it also provides a reminder of another benefit to that effort. Mississippi and Louisiana are anticipating an...