Lead researcher, Dr. Gretchen Hansen (Dr. Gretchen Hansen), describes this project as an example of how managing local conditions can help mitigate the negative effects of climate change.

While all grazing animals can improve grasslands, bison are less reliant on water sources & less likely to trample riparian plants, allowing fish & amphibian diversity to recover says #umn ecologist Joseph Bump. U of MN FWCB science.org/content/articl…

Great conversation with two other science and hunting advocates. Listen here for a quick summary of my current and past research. Offal Wildlife Watching (who eats your guts?) CitSci Minnesota DNR @bha_mn ArtemisSportswomen Minnesota Master Naturalist U of MN FWCB U of MN Extension MN Deer Hunters Assn podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art…

Please join us in congratulating FWCB student, Gretchen North, who is one of the inaugural recipients of this public service scholarship!

Conservation Sciences graduate students had a productive and enjoyable writing retreat up in Cloquet! I'm very thankful to be in a program with such amazing individuals.

Using survey data collected from 1993 to 2018 from 312 lakes in Minnesota, S. Mahlum U of MN FWCB and colleagues uncover the role of light and temperature on the abundance of #walleye buff.ly/3GxxYGf

Harshini Jhala (she/her) crushed it presenting her Phd research at TWS MN! The Wildlife Society U of MN FWCB 👏👏

The Dr. Gretchen Hansen (Hansen) Lab is hiring a research fellow: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/354558 #AIS #job Join this awesome team!

Welcome, Dr. Ford!

Congrats to Dr. Sushma Reddy Sushma Reddy, our Bell Museum Breckenridge Chair of Ornithology and Curator of Birds, for well-deserved recognition at CFANS Spring Assembly today as winner of Richard C. Newman Community Impact Award! 👏👏👏 #UMNProud

Welcome, Dr. David!

The Bell’s Curator of Fishes, @erimystax, is retiring this year—while we’re sad to see him go, we’re so grateful for the legacy of inquiry, mentorship, and curation he will leave behind. Read more at: bellmuseum.umn.edu/blog/saying-fa…

Wolves in northern MN are fishing far more than previously thought according to new findings from Voyageurs Wolf Project, showing the population's ability to adapt as their habitats change.

Dr. Elena West's team is leveraging acoustic monitoring and machine learning to identify red-headed woodpecker habitats around Minnesota. The goal is to train a computer to identify a queeah call, a territorial call produced by the birds. mprnews.org/story/2023/06/…

Authored by Dr. Dan Larkin and collaborators

Also, if anyone is curious: I accepted the PPFP position U of MN FWCB and will be starting this fall. I'm so grateful for the opportunity and very excited to join the department!!!

The usual suspects & surprise guests were spotted on camera dining on elephant carcasses in KWS Tsavo East National Park. Joseph Bump's lab & #CabLab (Stotra Chakrabarti, PhD, Ian Smith) collaborated on a new pub (z.umn.edu/8uh7) examining predator interactions at mega-carcasses.

FW3108 at McCarron. Calm but cool. U of MN FWCB

What will it take for elk to thrive once again in NE MN? On our first stop of the LCCMR site visit, experts James Forester @[email protected] of U of MN FWCB and Mike Schrage of Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa discussed their #mnertf-funded study that helped inform Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s plan to return elk to the region.