Sentences with phrase «wildlife agencies»

(9) The state wildlife agency and state health department should be consulted for coordination of any proposed vaccination or population - reduction programs.

I spent many 40 hour work weeks in the back country working for wildlife agencies around the nation.

Many are affiliated with state or federal wildlife agencies; others are independent researchers, university professors or graduate students.

They supply grants to other non-profit conservation organizations, state wildlife agencies, and tribal governments.

During the planning for the reconstruction of the Lincoln Street Bridge and the dam over the river, the city worked with wildlife agencies to build a passage that would allow fish as well as canoes and kayaks to navigate through the structure.

«While wildlife agencies typically do the right thing, they sometimes bow to political pressure and fail in their duty to protect wildlife.»

As for the concerns, I don't believe EHD can be passed onto humans at all (based on several wildlife agency websites).

And court records show that in a number of other cases over the past 10 years federal judges have admonished U.S. wildlife agencies — namely Wildlife Services (WS), run by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)-- over what some see as scientific missteps and bureaucratic inefficiencies in predator management programs.

«The predator - removal mind - set is deeply ingrained in many people, including those at these agencies,» says Bethany Cotton, attorney and wildlife program director at WildEarth Guardians, another advocacy group that challenges federal wildlife agencies over alleged lapses.

The study, published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, speaks to wildlife agency managers.

Instead, wildlife agencies used spring - loaded rocket nets to capture whole flocks and relocate them to a suitable turkey - free habitat.

If our state wildlife agency came to me seeking to outlaw red - eared sliders and bullfrogs, I would back them 100 percent.

Currently Massachusetts is one of only three states that is not a member of the network which has been helping wildlife agencies increase compliance with wildlife laws for 25 years.

Since 2008, Georgia Aquarium has participated in a collaborative, multi wildlife agency and NGO research study assessing the health of beluga whales in Bristol Bay, Alaska, where the beluga population faces significant threats to their natural environment.

The state's wildlife agency says the frequency of unprovoked bites — currently about seven a year — has been increasing about 3 percent each year.

«Our results provide hope for wildlife agencies, organizations, and citizens concerned about conservation,» offers study co-author Dr. Ashley Dayer of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

In March, experts renewed their calls for action, frustrated with the lack of acknowledgement by federal wildlife agencies that this was an urgent issue.

Armed with conservation dollars, wildlife agencies in several US states began collecting turkey eggs from nests in the wild, bringing them into captivity to rear for later release.

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

This may sound like an academic or a laboratory exercise, but for some businessmen, utility regulators, wildlife agencies and others, tinkering with the meaning of «normal» can mean big changes.

With the arrival of wind energy projects in Kansas and throughout the Plains, Sandercock and his team were part of a consortium of stakeholders — including conservationists, wildlife agencies and wind energy companies — who studied how these wind projects influence grassland birds.

But as the fish have advanced — presently they're as far north as Minnesota and as far east as Indiana — wildlife agencies and fishermen's lobbies in the Great Lakes region have become alarmed.

After DDT was banned in 1972 and the Endangered Species Act was passed the following year, bald eagle recovery programs were launched across the nation by state and federal wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, and universities.

«Political sway is a big problem for wildlife agencies,» says Lance Fisher, a professional fisherman and fishing guide based in Portland, Ore. «You would find better ecological balance if the experts at these agencies were left alone to do their jobs, but that's not how it goes down.»

Kilpatrick is a wildlife disease expert whose lab has been working with state and federal wildlife agencies and other partners to track the spread of white - nose syndrome, which was first discovered in New York state in 2006.

In hopes of getting around these barriers, members from many of these groups — including federal and state fisheries and wildlife agencies, water supply managers, irrigation districts, and environmental groups — came together in 2006 and began hammering out the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).

This was hailed as good news by the wildlife agencies and various groups working to conserve the sage grouse, which suffered dramatic population declines as humans invaded its habitat.

Only the BLM can remove wild horses and then only after it has consulted with and involved state wildlife agencies and other affected interests, and has entered into agreements as necessary when managing wild horses and burros.

The commission is meeting in Kissimmee on May 28 - 30 to consider such measures as prohibiting the release, feeding or protection of cats on lands managed by the wildlife agency.

Always contact a wildlife agency in your area in the event that you encounter an injured / orphaned bird of prey.

The pet overpopulation problem is a community problem and requires the entire community, government officials, animal welfare / rescue organizations, wildlife agencies, and concerned individuals to work together to create a solution.

If you're unable to locate a rehabilitator, try contacting an animal shelter, humane society, animal control agency, nature center, state wildlife agency or veterinarian.

I called a wildlife agency.

-- All of these groups are in communication and coordination with representatives of state fish and wildlife agencies, which manage salamander species and are in support of immediate federal action.

Work with local fish and wildlife agencies is imperative.)

Below you can read a brief note from Gilbert introducing her blog post on the incident, which shines a light on the country's network of bird rehabilitators and the difficulty they have, at times, in working smoothly with state wildlife agencies:

«The threat to global salamander populations from a new fungal strain is very real and of great concern to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,» Laury Marshall Parramore, a spokeswoman for the wildlife agency, wrote in an email.

There are more than 2,000 active oil and gas wells on Pennsylvania game lands — some inherited, some imposed, some built with the wildlife agency's consent.

The CEQ and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the DOI's direction then invited NOAA and the state wildlife agencies to co-lead the development of the document.