To save the endangered spotted owl from potential extinction, US wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins. The US Fish and Wildlife Service strategy released on Wednesday is meant to prop up declining spotted owl populations […]
A couple visiting Yellowstone National Park have delivered a textbook example of how not to photograph wildlife, cornering a large bison in a parking lot to take pictures on their phones. A video of the dangerously close encounter, shared via Instagram account TouronsOfYellowstone this week, shows the pair slowly approaching the animal from behind, seemingly […]
Summer means warmer weather, more family outings and the possibility of a wildlife encounter, especially if area residents make their living spaces, perhaps inadvertently, more attractive to wild animals. Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division biologist I.B. Parnell said a number of different wildlife species tend to make an appearance during this time […]
A renowned wildlife photographer who was fined for slowing traffic to photograph a grizzly bear has claimed that fighting the ticket has cost him $20,000. On October 9, 2023, Tom Mangelson saw an injured grizzly bear lying on the side of Highway 26 in Grand Teton National Park. He slowed down to photograph the bear, […]
The Jackson Fork Ranch on the upper Hoback River, pictured here in 2021, is typical of the agricultural landscape in the Bondurant basin. (Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile) A billionaire’s planned Upper Hoback Road luxury resort could take as long as six years to construct because Sublette County is not granting his request to eliminate seasonal […]
I recently had a friend visit from California, a fellow biologist, and I was so excited to show her the natural beauty and wonderful critters in this awesome state of ours. We saw two alligators, a baby gopher tortoise, an iguana, four snakes, an armadillo, and so many birds. But all these animals were almost […]
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Birds washing up on shore have local wildlife experts worried. Pictures show most of them seem to be sick and dying. A bird expert told Action News Jax Annette Gutierrez the birds are called shearwater birds and are known to migrate here. However, Ark Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation said they’ve received more than 100 calls […]
Officials plan to perform a necropsy on a young mountain lion found dead this weekend on Highway 101 near the site of a future wildlife crossing. Biologists at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area have studied mountain lions in the area since 2002 to see how they’re surviving in an increasingly urban area. Those efforts include […]
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A fire at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Law Enforcement offices in Lubbock has closed the building to the public, and the department is asking the public to utilize online and community resources for their needs. According to a news release from TPWD, a fire broke out at its offices — located at 1702 […]
Encounters between the roughly 3,000 elk that call the Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park area home and more than 4 million tourists that visit the park annually are inevitable. But Colorado wildlife officials are calling a third attack of a person by a cow elk in Estes Park in eight days “unprecedented.” The […]