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Stream in Glacier National Park experience severe streamflow drought. The rocks that are normally at the bottom of the river are dry. 

Striped Bass are an important sportfish in Missouri and a goal of reservoir stocking programs is to create a unique angling opportunity to catch a trophy fish. However, there is concern among fishery managers and anglers that stocked striped bass may compete with or prey upon other sport fishes like crappie and bass.

Watercolor painting of an eastern bluebird, Julia Olson, New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. 

• Length: 5.5 inches
• Thin bill
• Most often seen in open habitats: agricultural areas, wood edges, et al
• Southwestern United States birds are paler

Connectivity between populations is a conservation goal, as is establishment of populations in currently unoccupied recovery areas. This requires a better understanding of habitat selection within existing populations and ability to predict connectivity pathways among ecosystems.

This project all started when I began thinking about deer behaviors that may have been overlooked when we think of how chronic wasting disease might be spreading geographically. Something that’s overlooked in the literature on CWD is deer grooming behaviors. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) practice grooming.

Lara researches human-carnivore conflict, and is interested in the intersections between culture, identity, and ecology. Lara's area of expertise is wildlife management, specializing in carnivores.

Photo of the USGS UMID Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory at the Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Aloha! The Hawai’i Cooperative Fishery Research Unit (HCFRU) was established in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, with a shared vision of developing the scientific knowledge and natural resource professionals necessary to ensure the sustainability of Hawaiian natural resources for future generations.

eDNA autosampler is programmed to collect and filter water samples for eDNA analysis every 3 hours on Cherry Creek, MT

A Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine is one of the scientific devices used to analyze eDNA samples

Caroline has nearly a decade of experience in government relations and public affairs, working to ensure research on America’s fish and wildlife is effectively communicated to a diversity of audiences and decisionmakers.

Hadley Boehm is a graduate research assistant in the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She's leading striped bass fisheries research in Bull Shoals Reservoir with the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Illustration by Elizabeth "Lizzy" Lang, Graduate Research Assistant, Iowa State University.

Illustration (paper and mechanical pen) by Valerie Hinojoza-Rood, Post doc, Oregon State University. Mule deer and yearling migrating through eastern Oregon shrublands.

Tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) are an iconic species in the Pacific Northwest that provide a wide range of ecological, economic, and historically important services such as ecotourism for local communities- and bringing marine derived nutrients to terrestrial habitats.

The barn owl is a secretive species that is seldom observed during daylight hours away from its roosts and is one of the least vocal owls. They are difficult to detect at night except when they have large young in the nest.

Morgan Stum is a master’s student at Penn State University, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Morgan is leading research on stream fish communities in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Composite image/poster of several North American darter photographs captured via electrofishing for Morgan’s master’s project. North American darters are a widely threatened subfamily of freshwater fishes, with little known about their larval ecology.

The Topeka Shiner is federally endangered and has experienced drastic reductions in its distribution. In Missouri, the Topeka Shiner has undergone a drastic reduction in distributional range over the last half century, leaving few remaining known populations.

The ringtail is a small, secretive, omnivorous, nocturnal relative of the raccoon that occurs in southwestern Oregon, the most northern portion of the species range.

Illustration by Morgan Stum, master’s student, Penn State University.