How can managers help ungulates cross fences?
Wildlife managers may be able to give long-ranging ungulates in the West greater land access by making key changes to fencing. “Fences have been in human ...
Wyoming
Detection device reduces eagle deaths at wind farm
Detection devices using cameras and artificial intelligence algorithms can reduce eagle deaths around wind farms. “If [the device] calculates that the eagle is at ...
Effort succeeding to reduce Tetons’ nonnative mountain goats
Efforts to reduce the population of nonnative mountain goats in the Tetons has reduced their numbers to 29 — all in Grand Teton National Park. Wyoming Game and ...
JWM: Hunting didn’t alter Wyoming mule deer migration timing
Hunting season in south-central Wyoming doesn’t seem to impact the timing of migration for mule deer, but it does seem to prompt bucks to seek areas away from ...
Wolf expansion in Wyoming curtails puma population
It was February 1999, and a pack of five wolves had just made their way into the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming. The new pack, which had moved south from ...
Wyoming student chapter perseveres through pandemic
This article originally appeared in the Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2020 newsletter. Through strange times, the University of Wyoming’s ...
Virtual section and chapter meetings in November
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of The Wildlife Society’s sections and chapters have transitioned to virtual meetings. The following meetings are ...
TWS2020: Pronghorn responses to wind turbines vary
Most studies on the effects of wind turbines on wildlife focus on bats and birds, but researchers wondered how pronghorn may be affected. In a contributed oral ...
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 ...
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 ...