Imperiled mountain plovers use prairie dog colony edges
In Wyoming’s Thunder Basin National Grassland, imperiled mountain plovers choose nesting habitats on the edges of black-tailed prairie dog colonies, researchers ...
Wyoming
JWM: Energy development impacts sage-grouse reproduction
Energy development throughout Wyoming — including wind turbines and natural gas and oil extraction — decreases greater sage-grouse reproduction by removing the ...
JWM: Beetle-kill forests offer some refuge for elk from hunters
Elk sometimes turn to forests affected by bark-beetle epidemics, possibly finding refuges in areas hunters mostly avoid, according to new research. The ...
Helicopter shooting of Teton mountain goats called off
The National Park Service backed off plans to use aerial shooting to remove invasive mountain goats from Grand Teton National Park after Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon ...
Watch: Moose spar in Wyoming
Male moose have a special way of establishing a pecking order when encountering one another in the wild without too much undue violence, despite their brawn. ...
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 ...
Wildlife Services to review predator management methods in Wyoming
Under the terms of a recent court settlement, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services agreed to conduct an environmental analysis of its predator ...
Wyoming to build two wildlife underpasses
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission plans to spend $1.25 million to build two wildlife underpasses in western Wyoming on Highway 189. Commission officials say the ...
Watch: Mule deer use wildlife underpass in Wyoming
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are making use of a new underpass designed to reduce the danger of wildlife strikes in Sublette County, Wyo. The Wyoming Department ...
For moose, hunger is fiercer than wolves
As winter sets in and the need for food grows, Wyoming moose (Alces americanus) are more likely to hold their ground when wolves (Canis lupus) approach. In a study ...