The May issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

Check out articles on wild turkeys and hunting, Mojave desert tortoise head-starting, red fox expansion into the tundra, and more.

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Motion-sensitive cameras are commonly used to monitor wildlife occupancy rates, but how do their data correlate with density estimates obtained from more traditional methods? In the featured article of the May issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management, researchers compared camera data with more data from other methods for a variety of species, including moose, coyotes and snowshoe hares. Other articles look at sex-specific resource use by wild turkeys in response to hunting activity, Mojave desert tortoise head-starting, red fox expansion into the tundra, and more.

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Header Image: A cluster of Townsend's big-eared bats hibernates in a cave at Lava Beds National Monument. Credit: Theodore Weller