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• Special Sessions Set for 76th North American

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  The Program Committee for next year’s North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference just announced the event’s Special Sessions, described below.The 76th North American will be held March 14-19, 2011, at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas Ci...

• Wildlife Research Techniques Under Review After Animal, Human Deaths

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  A series of unrelated incidents that left grizzly bears, mountain goats and a Wyoming man dead has caused a review of some wildlife research projects, reports the Wildlife Management Institute. The U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Rocky Mountain Science...

• Saltcedar, Flycatcher and Saltcedar Leaf Beetle—Three Part Disharmony

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  In an ironic twist of fate, the federally endangered southwestern willow flycatcher has likely secured the survival of one of the most hated invasive plant species in the western United States, reports the Wildlife Management Institute....

• Open Fields Bear Fruit

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  An effort initiated several years ago to increase hunting opportunities significantly has finally come to fruition. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is requesting comments on an interim rule and has provided application procedures for the Volunt...

• BLM Moves to Protect Colorado’s Vermillion Basin

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  A new U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) draft resource management plan for northwestern Colorado would protect the 77,000-acre Vermillion Basin from energy development. The new plan is a sharp turn away from a 2007 draft plan that would have allowed en...

• Fish and Wildlife Plans Arctic 50th Celebration

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to launch a year-long celebration of a milestone in conservation history — the 50th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

• State Fish and Wildlife Agency Transformation Workshop Part II Slated

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  State fish and wildlife agencies (SFWAs) are struggling to address new and emerging conservation challenges while retaining core traditional programs. Many are finding they are unable to do so adequately and fear loss of relevancy to society unless they ...

• Get Newer and Faster Information on Chronic Wasting Disease

  Created: Friday, July 16, 2010

  Individuals wishing to stay abreast of up-to-date news and information regarding chronic wasting disease (CWD) now have a resource that will provide timely updates to email accounts, cell phones and personal web pages, reports the Wildlife Management Inst...

• Update on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

  Created: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

  Nearly two months after the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, starting a massive oil spume into the Gulf of Mexico, the “leak” still has not been stopped. Current estimates of the amount of oil spewing daily into the Gulf are f...

• Conservation Stewardship Program Gets Final Rule and Extension

  Created: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

  On June 3, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the Final Rule for administration of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) and extended the deadline for enrollment in the second ranking period of the program from June 11 until June 25, 2010, r...

• Under 2008 Farm Bill, USDA Provides a Decent TIP

  Created: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced commencement of the Transition Incentives Program (TIP), reports the Wildlife Management Institute.  TIP was authorized under the 2008 Farm Bill “to encourage retired or retiring owners or ...

• Sneak Preview of Waterfowl Status... and More

  Created: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

  You can now preview waterfowl populations and the condition of spring breeding habitats at Flyways.us. Pilot/biologists and observers are just finishing up aerial and ground surveys across the northern United States and Canada, gathering information on ...

• New Crop Insurance Agreement Bodes Well for Important Conservation Initiatives

  Created: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released the final draft of a new crop insurance agreement that will generate $6 billion in savings over the next 10 years, reports the Wildlife Management Institute.  Of the savings, $4 billion will b...

• New Mexico Senators Seek to Transfer Valles Caldera to the National Park Service

  Created: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

  The two U.S. Senators from New Mexico, Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, introduced legislation (S. 3452, Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act) in late May that would turn over the management of the Valles Caldera National Preserve to the National...

• Worth Reading

  Created: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

  The last of the great Victorian explorers was Percy Harrison Fawcett, renowned globally as “the David Livingston of the Amazon.”  In his repeated efforts to find the fabled, glittering kingdom of El Dorado—what Fawcett himself called “Z”—th...

• House Bill Would Clarify Clean Water Act

  Created: Friday, May 14, 2010

  The Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Representative James Oberstar (MN), along with Representatives John Dingell and Vern Ehlers (MI), introduced legislation on April 21 that attempts to restore protection under the Clean...

• Communication Strategies Support Woodcock Conservation

  Created: Friday, May 14, 2010

  The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) recently published research-based communication strategies to help the conservation community achieve the goals of the American Woodcock Conservation Plan by encouraging private landowners to create and conserve ea...

• Gulf Oil Spill Could Have Major Impacts on Region's Fish and Wildlife

  Created: Friday, May 14, 2010

  The impacts of the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has still not fully become evident, but the potential implications to the region known for its abundant and diverse fish and wildlife could be devastating, reports the Wildlife Management Institut...

• Conservation Stewardship Program Application Deadline Draws Near

  Created: Friday, May 14, 2010

  June 11, 2010 will be the next deadline for ranking applications to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), according to the Wildlife Management Institute.CSP was authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill. It was designed to maintain and increase conservation ...

• John Cooper Receives George Bird Grinnell Award

  Created: Saturday, April 17, 2010

  John Cooper, Vietnam vet, former federal wildlife law enforcement agent, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks Secretary, and accomplished sportsman was presented with the Wildlife Management Institute’s 2010 George Bird Grinnell Memorial Awar...