December 8, 2020

State Seeking Rabbit Death Info

In April, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) received test results confirming that Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHDV) was found in several species of wild rabbits in Texas. Since June, TPWD, the United States Department of […]

December 3, 2020

Center To Advance Bison Research

The future of America’s national mammal continued to brighten this week as officials from South Dakota State University (SDSU), the National Bison Association and the National Buffalo Foundation formally launched the Center of Excellence for Bison […]

December 3, 2020

Shocking Plastic Water Pollution

As concerns over the global plastic pollution crisis mount, researchers are unearthing a different but equally important component of the problem–microfibers. The Nature Conservancy and world-renowned industrial ecologists at the University of California Santa Barbara recently […]

December 2, 2020

Tazmanian Devil Makes Return

For the first time in 3,000 years, the Tasmanian devil is back in the wild on mainland Australia, an historic moment that is critical to rewild Australia, the country with the world’s worst mammal extinction rate. […]

November 18, 2020

New Maps Show Game Migration

For the first time, state and federal wildlife biologists have come together to map the migrations of ungulates – hooved mammals such as mule deer, elk, pronghorn, moose and bison – across America’s West. The maps […]

November 12, 2020

Urban Wildlife On The Rise

Checking the mail at the box down the street is a daily routine. In fact, I often do it instinctively without really thinking about it so my thought are often on anything but retrieving the stack […]

November 12, 2020

TX Gets New Wildlife Director

John Silovsky has been selected as the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Wildlife Division Director. Silovsky began his career with TPWD in 2014 and served as the District Leader for the Post Oak Savannah Wildlife […]

November 10, 2020

Toxic Shrews!

The shrew is a mouse-sized insectivore that is arguably the most voracious predator on the planet and the two most common shrews are the southern short-tailed shrew and the least shrew. Shrews have an extremely high […]

November 6, 2020

A Threatened Whitetail Subspecies?

Columbian white-tailed deer are a subspecies unique to southwest Washington and western Oregon and were listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1968. On October 13th, 2016 the US Fish and Wildlife Service […]

November 5, 2020

Tribe Releases 100 Bison

Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO), with support from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Rosebud Tribal Land Enterprise (TLE) proudly announce the inaugural transfer and release of 100 plains bison (buffalo) from the National Park Service to […]

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