February 8, 2022

Group Aids Elk Migration Mapping

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation provided $180,000 in funding from its Torstenson Family Endowment to help continue critical elk migration corridor mapping across the West. The grant to the University of Wyoming assists west-wide corridor mapping […]

February 2, 2022

Records Fall For Sheep Conservation

The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) recently concluded its 45th convention, Sheep Week®, with record amounts raised again for wild sheep conservation. At this premier event for raising dedicated funding for state, provincial, territorial, and tribal wildlife […]

February 1, 2022

Tracking Eastern Turkeys

A cutting-edge study to examine the lives of Eastern wild turkeys has crossed the Sabine River from Louisiana into East Texas. Louisiana State University (LSU) researchers with the cooperation of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department […]

January 27, 2022

Omnicron Found In Whitetails

A Penn State University has discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus in whitetail deer according to a report in Time magazine. According to a new study (which has not yet been peer-reviewed) published on bioRxiv, […]

January 26, 2022

TX Biologist Addresses COVID-19 In Deer

COVID-19 has been found in whitetail deer in Texas and numerous Midwestern states. And contrary to social media chatter, it’s not the coronavirus common to certain animals. It’s the same COVID-19 impacting people around the world. In this […]

January 20, 2022

Maine Turkeys Help Complete Franklin County Super Stocking

“Live Animals” Thirteen boxes with green and white stickers announcing this was organic, living cargo arrived at the headquarters of Cooper Lake Wildlife Management Area in Northeast Texas. The decal had an icon of a dog, […]

January 18, 2022

Poisoning Hogs: What You’ve Never Heard

Should we poison feral hogs? For the last five years, various plans to poison feral hogs has been on tap for Texas but various challenges have changed the original plans. Click to listen. In the final […]

January 18, 2022

Critical Elk Migration Gets Boost

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation provided $180,000 in funding from its Torstenson Family Endowment to help continue critical elk migration corridor mapping across the West. The grant to the University of Wyoming assists west-wide corridor mapping […]

January 11, 2022

Analysis Of A TX Hog Attack

Hog attacks are increasing in Texas. With four attacks in under two years, the trend of major hog-human conflict is rising. In this episode of Higher Calling Wildlife on the Waypoint Podcast Network, host Chester Moore […]

January 6, 2022

Light Pollution Alters Cougar-Deer Predation

A new study provides strong evidence that exposure to light pollution alters predator-prey dynamics between mule deer and cougars across the intermountain West, a rapidly growing region where nighttime skyglow is an increasing environmental disturbance. The […]

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