How is a changing Arctic affecting wildlife movement?
Long-term wildlife movement studies in the Arctic are hard to come by. That’s because they can be expensive, requiring tags that communicate through satellite ...
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TWS’ statement on delisting of gray wolves
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced their decision to remove gray wolves (Canis lupus) from the federal Endangered Species Act on Oct. 29, 2020. The ...
To manage carnivores and livestock, focus on ecology
When carnivores prey on livestock, managers have to navigate so many economic and cultural factors, it can be easy to forget that at the heart of it, an ecological ...
Wandering Wyoming lone wolf enters Colorado
A wolf biologists tracked for the past year wandering throughout Wyoming seems to have crossed an open hunting zone to a new home in Colorado. About a year ago, the ...
Park Service proposes changes to Alaska hunting regulations
The National Park Service has proposed a rule that would change hunting and trapping regulations for national preserves in Alaska. The rule would reverse NPS ...
Read the most talked about papers from JWM and WSB
As a member of The Wildlife Society you can now easily read the full text of the most talked about papers from the Journal of Wildlife Management and the Wildlife ...
Three new TWS journal issues published
The July issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 81.5), the latest Wildlife Monograph (Vol. 198) and the June issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin (Vol. ...
Montana to rely on hunter data for wolf counts
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say they plan to change the way they estimate the state’s wolf (Canis lupus) populations, switching to a model that ...
JWM study: Dispersal spreads wolves throughout the West
When Diane Boyd arrived in Montana in 1979, the northern Rockies had just one wolf. A lone female wolf, it had wandered from Canada, possibly from as far as Banff ...
First wolf spotted in Nevada in nearly a century
Nevada wildlife officials have confirmed the first presence of a gray wolf (Canis lupus) in the state in nearly a century. The male, which is believed to have ...