The My Wild Land film series about the migration conservation efforts of three Wyoming ranches was selected as the First Place Winner by Two Percent for Conservation's 2023 Conservation Media Awards!…

Tanner Warder, an undergraduate field technician, captured a video of migrating mule deer that went viral. It racked up 24 million views on social media and reached a global audience…

Wyoming's research on the effects of I-80 on wildlife movements was recently featured in the Washington Post. The interactive feature draws from many data sets collected by dozens of studies…

Bison don't just follow the green wave of forage during migration, they actually manipulate it so springtime plant conditions last longer. WMI scientists Jerod Merkle and Matt Kauffman participated in…

A mule deer doe that winters in the Owl Creek Mountains migrates 100 miles west to summer in the Gros Ventre Range, according to initial findings of a study that…

Big-game migration research led by a recent University of Wyoming Ph.D. graduate has received national recognition from the Ecological Society of America. The research provided the first empirical evidence that…

How do big-game animals know where to migrate across hundreds of miles of vast Wyoming landscapes year after year? Among scientists, there are two camps of thought. First is that…

The first-ever atlas of ungulate migration was released in October 2018, detailing the ecology and conservation of migratory big-game species including mule deer, elk and pronghorn in Wyoming, the greater…

“Wild Migrations, Atlas of Wyoming’s Ungulates,” published last month, presents 70 compelling migration stories from one of the most studied ecosystems on earth and offers a first-of-its-kind resource for wildlife…

A team of scientists at the University of Wyoming has provided the first empirical evidence that ungulates (hooved mammals) must learn where and when to migrate, and that they maintain…