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The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management and conservation, focusing on aspects of wildlife that can assist management and conservation.

The American oystercatcher is rebounding along the coast of the Americas.

Hunting and egg collecting nearly wiped out the species in New England by the 20th century. But because of recovery efforts in places like Rhode Island’s Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge, the species’ numbers are on the rise.

At a time when

The Wildlife Society has awarded the Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Scholarship to Laken Mize to determine the genetic impact of 50 years of restocking eastern wild turkeys to a fragmented landscape in eastern Texas.

“[Mize] is fundamentally aligned with the intersection of conservation and traditional wildlife management,” said Warren Conway, a professor in wildli...

Giant, introduce Joro spiders may not be feeding off the plates of native spiders in Georgia and South Carolina.

New research reveals that these spiders, native to parts of Asia, have dietary preferences that don’t overlap much with native spiders.

Colorful Joro spiders (Trichonephila clavate) are massive—their legs can stretch out larger than the palm ...

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