Tag: Winnipeg Conference

March 16, 2016

Student poster project: wildlife biologists working with ranchers

Maggi Sliwinski, a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been studying how private landowners feel about habitat management. Her poster presentation of the findings won first place in...

March 7, 2016

TWS member tracks the mystery of snow leopard populations

It was 2009 in a small valley in the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia, about 50 miles from the Chinese border. Local sheep and goat herders in the area had...

January 8, 2016

UND Students Take Home First Place for Blue-Winged Teal Project

Undergraduate students at the University of North Dakota Nick Conrad and John Palarski rode around in ATVs in search of blue-winged teal nests last summer. They found the nests and...

December 16, 2015

Muskox Populations Expand in Western Hudson Bay

There were miles and miles of rolling hills, wetlands so clear you could see fish in the lake from the plane and shrubby tundra with patches of green. Rocky areas...

November 2, 2015

Up Close with Polar Bears

Have you ever walked through an underwater glass tunnel surrounded by polar bears swimming overhead or come face to face with a polar bear purring affectionately behind its outdoor enclosure?...