The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released the preliminary findings for the 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation that shows that 38 percent of Americans 16 years and older participated in wildlife recreation in that year. These 90 million Americans spent $145 billion dollars on equipment, trip-related expenses, land ownership/leasing and conservation.

Wildlife disease experts warn that the prolonged drought affecting much of the nation will likely spur a substantial outbreak of enzootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD), reports the Wildlife Management Institute. According to experts at the University of Georgia's Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS), wildlife managers in the entire Missouri River drainage as well as the Piedmont regions of North Carolina and West Virginia should prepare to see their white-tailed deer herds "get hammered" by this year's rash of EHD.

In his opening remarks to the Idaho Wildlife Summit, Governor Butch Otter enthusiastically said that every citizen in Idaho benefits from the presence of fish and wildlife in the state, and that it?s time for all Idahoans to share in both charting the course ? and bearing the cost ? of conservation in the state, reports the Wildlife Management Institute.

The Johns River Basin in northern New Hampshire was recently recognized as a working forest project that provides an excellent example of people and organizations collaborating to support conservation and forest stewardship. In a ceremony that took place in August, the ambitious habitat restoration project led by Wagner Forest Management received the prestigious Two Chiefs' Award, bestowed by the heads of the U.S.

In late August, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Partners for Fish & Wildlife (Partners) program celebrated 25 years of supporting conservation on private lands, reports the Wildlife Management Institute. The voluntary program has focused on developing cooperative, short-term conservation agreements that provide financial and technical assistance to private landowners.