May 2018

Climate change, declining budgets, and a shortage of experienced pilots and aircraft are among the top reasons moose managers in Alaska are finding it harder to track the status and trends of this important species. On April 24th and 25th, the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) collaborated with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the National Park Service (NPS) to convene the Alaska Moose Monitoring Workshop in Anchorage. The workshop brought together over 70 managers, researchers, and biometricians, to address the challenges to monitoring moose populations.

The 84th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference will be held March 4 to 8, 2019, at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado. The Conference Steering Committee is seeking ideas and participation from professional conservation interests to help develop the conference agenda. In particular, proposals for the four conference Special Sessions are invited. Ideas for prospective plenary keynote speakers are also welcome.

Over the past 50 years, golden-winged warbler populations in the eastern portion of their North American breeding distribution have experienced some of the steepest declines of any Neotropical-Nearctic migratory songbird and until recently the cause of these declines has been a mystery. Recent research by the USGS Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the West Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, collaborators at the University of Toledo and the University of Tennessee, and partners at 22 study sites across eastern North America has shed light on the probable cause of these declines.