January 2013

Which streams may become too hot for salmon or whitefish? Can we expect salmon to move north into streams where whitefish or sheefish now dominate? Will there be competition between the species? Which streams will remain colder and perhaps become refugia for the fish species there today? These are some of the questions that people are asking about climate change effects on fisheries. With the information available today in Alaska, it is very difficult to provide more than basic responses to these questions at a landscape scale. For this reason the Western Alaska and Northwest...

The "fiscal cliff" package, passed by Congress on New Year's Day and signed by the President on January 2nd, includes a partial extension of the 2008 Farm Bill until September 30, 2013. The legislation includes provisions to avoid substantial increases in the price of milk and continues direct payments for commodity crops, but failed to fully extend the conservation title, according to the Wildlife Management Institute.

A fix for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) was not included in the fiscal cliff package. Enrollment in CSP had to be curtailed by the U.S. Department of...

The last decade has seen significant advancements in the nature and number of science-management partnerships that address landscape-level conservation throughout North America. Numerous federal and state agencies, as well as conservation NGO's, have joined forces through these partnerships to advance conservation that is holistic, collaborative, adaptive and grounded in science to ensure the sustainability of our lands, waters, wildlife and cultural resources. Given that landscape-level conservation challenges often overlap and frequently transcend political boundaries, there exists...

"Implications of Energy and Agriculture Development for Wildlife on Private Lands" is the topic of Special Session 2 at the 78th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. Concurrent with three other special sessions, it will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. Co-Chaired by Dr. Ed Arnett of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Dr. Tim McCoy of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, this session will examine how America's wildlife and natural resources will be impacted and...

As a new resource in 2013, the ONB will include articles from Cooperative Research Units across the country. These units are leading exciting, new wildlife research projects that we believe our readers will appreciate reading about. This month's article was submitted by Dr. Joe Margraf, Supervisor of Cooperative Research Units with the U. S. Geological Survey.

Traditional management of wildlife takes place on relatively fine spatial and temporal scales, often for good reasons: some population dynamics as well as allocation of harvest opportunity take place on these...