Two young male grizzly bears were caught on May 16 near Lake of the Woods off LaBrant Road east of Kalispell.   Grizzly Bear Management Specialist Tim Manley said the 2-1/2 year old bears likely were siblings recently on their own. The two bears weighed 167 and 176 pounds, respectively. The bears had been seen in [...]

Over a million acres worth of conservation impact in Wyoming alone. That’s the historic milestone that Wyoming volunteers of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation hope to reach this year with plenty of hard work and new grants for wildlife habitat projects across the state. The RMEF funding commitment for 2012 projects in Wyoming totals $338,006 [...]

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission collected broodstock this spring to aid in the recovery of the endangered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River. Eggs collected from captured pallid sturgeon were to be fertilized in hatcheries. The young pallid sturgeon produced will be stocked into the Missouri. Game and Parks and several volunteers collected 84 [...]

March through October marks sea turtle nesting season on Florida’s shorelines, and Biscayne National Park rangers are asking the public to help them as they monitor nests within park boundaries. Throughout the season, rangers and interns monitor the park’s beaches along Elliott Key, Sands Key, Boca Chita Key and other islands for signs of nesting. [...]

On May 18, 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and numerous organizations will honor Endangered Species Day, and the nationwide conservation efforts underway protecting America’s threatened, endangered and at-risk species. The Endangered Species Act has prevented hundreds of listed species from going extinct. Co-administered by the Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the [...]

Through a cooperative effort among the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), Ameren Missouri and the World Bird Sanctuary (WBS), tens-of-thousands of people from around Missouri and around the world have been getting a bird’s-eye view of peregrine falcons raising five chicks in a nest box at Ameren’s Sioux Energy Center in St. Louis. A camera [...]