Wildlife biologists do research that helps us better manage our natural resources. They may specialize in fields such as physiology, genetics, ecology, behavior, disease, nutrition, population ...

Traditional rural dwellers -- loggers, ranchers, and farmers -- viewed wildlife as a fringe benefit of their lifestyle. They modified habitats and manipulated ...

Out of the deer tested in Iowa between September 2020 and January 2021, a third of total white-tailed deer had SARS-coV-2. Joseph A. Maker via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY SA 3.0 In Minnesota's ...

HORICON - As many hunts do, it started with a camouflage-clad gathering well before first light. A dozen men and women assembled outside the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge office to go through ...

State agency director resigned under pressure in November and weeks later signed on to replace recently retired Doug Brimeyer ...

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking the public to be aware and help turtles that may be trying to cross roads. Vermont biologists say turtles commonly cross roads at this time of year ...

When Maura Healey was running for Massachusetts governor, she called for a moratorium on commercial tree-cutting on state forests. It was meant as a pause, while the state figures out how its forests ...

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This story by Liberty Darr was first published in The Citizen on Dec. 24, 2025. The Charlotte Conservation Commission is ...