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A collection of 57 posts

drones_africa_feature

High Above, Drones Keep Watchful Eyes on Wildlife

We have found drones to be a useful management tool. However the simplicity of drones is greatly overestimated, especially the notion of flying them by video monitor at great distances from the operator. NOTE: This article was originally published on NYTimes.com. Drones seemed like the perfect anti-poaching tools. But

Stop Killing Coyotes

Animal Development

Stop Killing Coyotes

As repeatedly shown, predator “control” harms the species we seek to protect. In addition, there is the ethical issue of the control methods used, which true hunters would neither use, nor tolerate. NOTE: This post initially appeared on NYTimes.com on August 11, 2016 One morning in the late 1930s,

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Native Camels of North America

Are Camels Natives to North America? The question of whether llamas and camels are natives or exotics in North America exposes the many contradictions inherent in the phony science of invasive species “biology.” Millions of years ago the camel family – camelids – evolved in North America, eventually dividing into at least

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"Invasion Biology"

13 Chronic Wasting Disease Cases Confirmed at Medina County Facility

All cases of CWD can be traced back to the Foothills Wildlife Research Station in Ft. Collins, a facility of the Colorado Department of Wildlife, in 1967. Agencies have closed ranks: It appears that amnesia has spread like CWD. No one seems to remember what was being done to the

Predicting for the Return of West Texas Black Bears

Predicting for the Return of West Texas Black Bears

Black Bears were once so numerous in West Texas that is was possible to shoot several per day. As late as the 1930’s there were 200 black bear in the Davis Mountains alone. These animals were an integral part of an ecological system which supported far more animal numbers

TPWD Habitat Survey at Circle Ranch

"Invasion Biology"

TPWD Habitat Survey at Circle Ranch

In late fall of 2010 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department conducted a habitat survey at Circle Ranch, to see if our many cattle and other species including so called “exotics” were harming habitat through “competition”. As confirmed by this report, TPWD biologists found the opposite to be true. It turns

Turkey in Wood Canyon, December 17, 2006

Turkey in Wood Canyon, December 17, 2006

We conducted three years of releases. These birds were from a small first release conducted in winter 2005.