Virginia Tech researchers seek to understand the environmental factors that influence the distribution of hantavirus in rodent populations across the United States.

The cougar was euthanized, and his tissue samples, which were tested for a number of diseases, revealed the presence of the ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little ...

The closely-spaced deaths of two cougars in Washington state suggest the virus is likely more widespread than thought.

Lusha Tronstad, lead invertebrate zoologist with the University of Wyoming’s Wyoming Natural Diversity Database (WYNDD), recently received the Professional of the Year Award from the Wyoming Chapter ...

Our faculty, students and researchers travel the world to conduct research in ecology and evolution ... science education, wildlife biology, conservation biology, data science, research management, ...

Over the past three years, more cases of H5N1 in wild mammals have been reported in Washington than in any other Western state except Colorado ... considered a wildlife conservation issue ...

Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act.

On Feb. 14, the Donald Trump administration fired at least 2,300 staff members at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Four hundred of those positions belonged to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ...

Snow crunched underfoot as Mark Hebblewhite scanned the ridgelines of Canada’s Banff National Park. It was 1995, and the young biologist, fresh out of undergrad, was trailing one of the park’s most ...