“In 2007, Dr. Carol Chambers assessed the ability of scent detection dogs to locate bats that were roosting in trees and snags in the summer in northern Arizona,” said Tory Rhoads, a wildlife ...

The Halloween decorations around town evoke thoughts about things of fall, autumn-hued leaves, kids in costumes tricking for candy, chrysanthemums, pumpkin-spiced everything, ghost, goblins and bats.

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Ecologists have long known that standing dead trees, commonly referred to as snags, are an important habitat element for forest dwellers and act as a driver of biodiversity.

When you consider the concept of the tree of life, the life giver of the forest, chances are that the image of a fruit covered tree is conjured in your mind. Its leafy bower hanging low to the ground, ...

Snags are used as roosting sites by many bats living in coniferous forests of western North America. Thus, providing sufficient numbers of snags both spatially and temporally in forested landscapes is ...

Both snag trees and den trees provide essential food and cover for many species of wildlife. Snags are standing dead trees, and den trees are alive with a cavity in the trunk or limbs. In Missouri, ...

Tree snags are “a gourmet restaurant,” that is, from a bird’s perspective, Larry Cartwright told a group of Northern Virginia Audubon at Home ambassadors on Feb. 20 in a Zoom meeting. He encouraged ...

Standing dead trees, or snags, may appear to be useless eyesores, but a state wildlife biologist says actually they are important components of wildlife habitat and frequently in short supply. “That ...