Wildlife Ecology Institute

10/05/2026

We have our next paper published, and it is open access (available to anyone to download at no cost. This is our final paper from Phase I of our Great Lakes Basin Muskrat Project. We are busy working on the data analyses for Phase II of our project, built upon the foundation of Phase I.

Hiller, T. L., A. A. Ahlers, A. Sylvia, D. R. Etter, E. M. Dunton, C. C. Dennison, and R. Huffman. 2026. Harvest data are good indices of annual abundance of muskrats. Northeastern Naturalist 33:355–363.

10/02/2026

The Wildlife Society recently interviewed us about our completed gray fox project in Indiana. Check it out here:

Wild Cam: Gray foxes are declining in Indiana
https://wildlife.org/wild-cam-gray-foxes-are-declining-in-indiana/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--zGyGAgdczyIpKNCE2irhsOgN5dR57NjNx4_WMrhMe5lP1W-3E2d4bsopf3EFa5mLbpBiiqA4VxH7j3a6E50ga2u4-cHjqm41j5xXztZv-HGtdEvQ&_hsmi=442093214&utm_content=442093214&utm_source=hs_email

You can find a link to our open-access monograph in the article.

10/02/2026

BOOK CHAPTER PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE

Wild Furbearer Management and Conservation in North America
Edited by Tim Hiller, Roger Applegate, Bob Bluett, Nicki Frey, Eric Gese, and John Organ

Now published online and available for download at no cost:
Chapter 6: Habitat, Habitat Modeling, and Furbearers
Authored by Glynnis Hood and Mark Boyce

Thanks Authors!

To learn more about the book, click here:
https://www.wildlifeecology.org/fur_book.html

To download this chapter, click here:
https://www.wildlifeecology.org/fur_book_06furhabitat.html

09/25/2026

Article: U.S. Forest Service closes 23 research sites

Officials point to cost savings from facility consolidation as decision driver

09/25/2026

WILD FURBEARER MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION IN NORTH AMERICA

What are the next chapters to be published in our book?

Habitat and Furbearers
Virginia Opossum
Ocelot
Trapper Education in North America

And we expect more to come!

09/15/2026

BOOK CHAPTER PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE

Wild Furbearer Management and Conservation in North America
Edited by Tim Hiller, Roger Applegate, Bob Bluett, Nicki Frey, Eric Gese, and John Organ

Now published online and available for download at no cost:
Chapter 52: Least Weasel
Authored by Thomas Gehring and Michelle Kane

Thanks Authors!

To learn more about the book, click here:
https://www.wildlifeecology.org/fur_book.html

To download this chapter, click here:
https://www.wildlifeecology.org/fur_book_52leastweasel.html

09/10/2026

08/28/2026

NEW PUBLICATION on
Genetic Diversity of Gray Foxes:

Koller, A. L., J. E. Maldonado, W. R. Clark, J. Beringer, G. Albers, T. L. Hiller, and D. M. Reding. 2026. Characterizing genetic diversity and population structure of gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in the eastern United States using 2bRAD sequencing data. Journal of Heredity:esag060.

Click below for the open-access article.

08/14/2026

There is a lot going on with bobcat management (and other aspects of wildlife management) in Kentucky that most folks might not have heard about. Here's one of several articles in the Kentucky Lantern, which included our responses to some of the questions from the Lantern during a recent interview.

Chet Hayes thinks Kentucky has a decent bobcat population but it's hard to know exactly how many there are.

07/21/2026

The monograph from our Indiana Gray Fox Project is now published and open access! Look for more publications in the near future for this project, as well as our other recently completed projects.

Hiller, T. L., J. A. Nawrocki, B. M. Bernhardt, L. K. Jeakle, D. M. Reding, and G. Albers. 2026. Ecology of declining populations of gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in Indiana, USA. Wildlife Monographs e70019.

We estimated seasonal space use, cover selection, and resource selection; evaluated gene flow and potential genetic barriers; and assessed cause-specific survival rates and reproduction of radiomarke...