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The Outdoor News Bulletin (ONB) was established by the Wildlife Management Institute in 1946. Distributed once a month, the ONB covers key issues and updates on wildlife and natural resource management.

December 2025
Happy Holidays
Innovative Partnering for Private Lands in America
2025 Proposed Rules to Revise Endangered Species Act Regulations
Trees Act Their Size, Not Their Age
November 2025
Success: The Evolution of a Term
Shutdown Ends, RIFs Reversed
Senate Defeats Resolution Blocking FWS Barred Owl Strategy
Life Under the Canopy
Same Summer, Different Stories
October 2025
AFWA Endorses Best Management Practices for Lead Tackle and Ammo
Avian Influenza Update
Tony Wasley Receives AFWA’s Stephen Kellert Award
Connecting with Conservation’s First Year: From Zero to Momentum
New Research Evaluates Habitat Use in New England Cottontails
Conservation Through the Lens of Lifespan
September 2025
Poach & Pay Research Exposes Hidden Costs of Wildlife Poaching
Midwest Landscape Initiative: An Innovative Partnership in the Midwest
Nationwide Effort to Protect Pollinators Gains Momentum
Reconnection Season is Open
Roadless and Public Lands Rules Proposed for Rescission
FWS Opens new Hunting/Fishing Opportunities, Continues Voluntary Lead-Free Incentive Program
DOI Secretary’s Order 3442 to Guide Implementation of LWCF
Fishing in Nervous Waters: Using Science to Address Uncertainty in Steelhead Fisheries
August 2025
The Tyranny of the Urgent: Taking Time to Think
A Sustainable Future at the 2025 SBP Americas Forum
Brian Nesvik Confirmed as USFWS Director
USDA Secretary Rollins Announces Department Reorganization Plan
Federal Judge Sends Northern Rockies Wolf ESA Status Back to FWS
Northeast Conservation Leadership Program Launched
Texas Anglers Unite to Fill Knowledge Gaps on Black Bass
July 2025
The Scientific Method as an Approach to Life in the Information Age
Foundations of Conservation: North American Wildlife Policy of 1973
Working Across the West: WAFWA’s Approach to Landscape-Level Conservation
Invasive Tick Brings New Protozoan Disease to United States
Backyard Biodiversity in Residential Yards
June 2025
Public Lands: Acres, Dollars, and Identities
Foundations of Conservation: 1930 American Game Policy
Working Lands, Wildlife: A Wild Goose Chase Win?
Call for North American Conference Special Session Proposals
Federal Judge Upholds a Wetlands Conservation Law Known as 'Swampbuster'
American Pronghorn Movements in the Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico
May 2025
Foundations of Conservation: A Bias to Action
Lessons from a Woodpile
How Did it All Start? The Emergence of Conservation Without Conflict
Exploring Linkages Amongst Regional Landscape Conservation Partnerships
When Habitat is Not Enough: Pesticide Risks Affect Monarch Survival
DOI Implements Emergency Permitting for Energy
USDA Offers Grants for Transporting Dead or Downed Trees
Bill Would Close Loophole on Fishing, Archery Excise Tax Evasion
April 2025
Foundational Elements of Wildlife Conservation: Toward a Broader Vision
The Foundation of Conservation is Cracked – Now What?
Opportunities in Times of Rapid Change
WAFWA Releases Conservation Social Science Report
Cooperative Research Units Program Unveils Two Informative Fact Sheets
March 2025
In the Face of Change
Lowell Baier Receives WMI’s Highest Honor, George Bird Grinnell Award
New Groundbreaking Conservation: Successful Reintroduction of the Reticulated Flatwood Salamander
2025 State of the Birds Report Shows Continued Widespread Declines
Survey Shows Near Doubling of Eastern Monarchs Overwintering in Mexico
OICC Partner Story - Gun Owners: Guilty by Association
Partner with a Payer Video Focuses on Pennsylvania Elk Restoration
The Torment of Ticks in the Penobscot Nation, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
February 2025
NASA and WMI Partner to Support Biodiversity
Wintering Western Monarch Surveys Show Large Decline in Numbers from Previous Year
Catalyst to Copper
Private Lands are the Key to Success in Conservation
Wildlife Conservation Funding, Firearm Ownership, and Target Shooting Participation
"Thinking Like a Manager" Training Completed in Florida FWC
Ungulate Migrations of the Western U.S., Volume 5 Released
January 2025
Two New Reports on Chronic Wasting Disease are Available
De-Extinction vs Un-Extinction; Keeping What We’ve Got
Connecting with Conservation: Bringing Conservation Stories to Life
Bringing All Authorities on Deck: Leveraging Federal Authorities to Support State Wildlife Action Plans
Grizzly Bear Remains Threatened, New DPS Created and New 4(d) Rules Proposed
President Biden Signs EXPLORE Act and ACE Act Reauthorization
The Fragmented World of Fragmentation Research
December 2024
APHIS to Begin Implementing Lacey Act Phase VII on Plant Product Imports
Forest Service Announces New Monitoring Policy
USDA Announces New Milk Testing Order for H5N1 Bird Flu in Raw Milk
Birding Proves to be Good for the American Economy
Fair Chase – Is it Changing?
The Longest Season
Leveraging the Full Federal Authority: A Strategy for Enhanced State Conservation Programs
Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Endangered Species Act Protection for Monarch Butterfly
USGS Research Helps Oyster Harvests and Restoration in Louisiana and Texas
November 2024
Beyond the Stick: The Untapped Potential of the ESA
Exxon Valdez Funded Kodiak Refuge Acquisitions Turn 30
Update on 2024 H5N1 Influenza A Virus Outbreak in the United States
Open Up and See Awe
State Wildlife Ballot Initiative Successes
Working Lands for Wildlife Announces Sagebrush Conservation Gateway
OICC Partner Story: Foreign-Sourced Direct-to-Consumer Sporting Goods May be Bypassing Conservation Tax
Re-Thinking Salmon Counts: Research Uses Environmental DNA to Fill Monitoring Gaps in Alaskan Salmon Runs
October 2024
Shifting Wildlife Values and Ballot Box Biology
Monarch ESA Listing Decision Expected in December
Canada Announces Draft Transition Plan to Ban Open Net-Pen Salmon Aquaculture in British Columbia
Farm Bill Expiration Will Impact CRP Signups This Fall
Florida's PES Program: A Model for Wildlife Conservation
OICC Partner Story: The Politicization of Wildlife Commissions
OICC Partner Story: How Effective is Your Wildlife Commissioner?
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