Our membership is open to anyone interested in learning about wildlife and the outdoors. If you're interested in joining, click on the Membership link to find out how.

Members enjoy each others company and free food at every meeting that is held in one of the Mammalogy laborotories.

Each year, we attempt to provide learning experiences to our members that they would not find in a classroom environment. Whether we are volunteering on a research project with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, listening to a guest speaker during our bi-monthly meetings or participating in the annual New Mexico - Arizona meeting of the state chapters of The Wildlife Society, our goal is to promote participation by our members. Over the next year, we look forward to increasing our activities as a group, as well as our involvement in the community. Check out our window outside of the biology department office on the 2nd floor of building 21 to see what's coming up.

We are always interested in getting feedback regarding upcoming activities, field trips, volunteer projects and the website. Feel free to contact us with your comments by clicking on the Contact Us link. The organization's e-mail address is available as are our phone number and campus address.

Also, please sign our Guestbook and let us know what you think of our club, our website, or just say hi!

Here are some of the things our members have done the past couple of  years.....

Wildlife and Habitat Volunteer Projects:

Gunnison’s Prairie Dog trapping and relocation with Habitat Harmony. These Prairie Dogs were rescued from a site fixing to be developed, and they were safely relocated to new home in a rural area.

3 Prairie Dogs waiting patiently for relocation. Photo from Habitat Harmony Inc.

Pronghorn Antelope Habitat Restoration (Juniper thinning) with the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

 (Click here for Habitat Restoration pictures)

Bird Court Clean-up at NAU – Restoring an area on campus with native plants and wildlife habitat for a student study area.

Bighorn Sheep collaring to help track movement, and water tank implementation for the wildlife.

Sara Fessinger helping collar Bighorn Sheep

Bat Box Building Project with the Research Branch of the Arizona Game and Fish Department

Bald Eagle trapping and radio tagging with the Research Branch of the Arizona Game and Fish Department (beginning this December).

Helped to seed and restore a Native Fish pond at Raymond Ranch Wildlife Area.

(Click here for Raymond Ranch pictures)

Save the Osprey Clean Up Day at Mormon Lake

Urban Skunk Ecology Research Project with USDA. Setting traps for skunks to be collared and helping to track movement.

A Striped Skunk waiting patiently to be collared. Did you know eye drops are administered to animals that are captured and mildly tranquilized in order for their eyes to stay hydrated? Every precaution is made to ensure the animals are comfortable and unharmed.

Other Club Activities:

Conduct On-Campus Information Days for perspective students interested in NAU, with information on wildlife careers and the Wildlife Society student chapter.

Some members attended the Wings Over Wilcox Sandhill Crane festival in January and a Condor Release at the Vermillion Cliffs in October and March.

Happy members at the Vermillion Cliffs California Condor Release

(Click here for more Condor Outing pictures)

Attended an Award’s Banquet for Dr. Syl Allred (a former Wildlife Society faculty advisor)

Began a Southwestern Endangered Species Mural Project (to be completed in the Spring of 2004 and installed at the biological sciences building on the NAU campus).

TWS Volunteer Appreciation BBQ at Lake Mary for all the hard working members that attended the Pronghorn Habitat Restoration day.

Science Bowling Tournament in November. An all-NAU science clubs bowling tournament, in which TWS won prizes for the Highest Team Score and Best Individual Bowler.

The Bowling Champions!

Spring BBQ. An all member end-of-semester social event in May. Horseshoes, Volleyball, good food and more! 

Wildlife Fair. Members are part of the annual Wildlife Fair that occurs in Flagstaff for the public, but especially for the kids! We teach kids about different local animals, show them other neat things like an Elephant's tooth or a Moose antler, and teach them how to track with telemetry by hiding a stuffed animal with a collar on it and having them locate it.

 Eleven members attended the 2003 Arizona-New Mexico Wildlife Society meeting in Gallup, New Mexico. We participated in a student chapter meeting that involved 3 other student groups, making lasting contacts and future plans to meet at the next meeting as well.

Seventeen members attended the 2004 Arizona-New Mexico Wildlife Society meeting in Safford, Arizona and helped with everything under the sun to make it run smoothly. It was a great time and we made lots of great friends. (Click here for Conference pictures)

Set up an informational booth at the Society for Environmental Communicators NAU Earth Fest, during Earth Day.

Members also attended and represented the Wildlife Society by performing Audio/Visual duties and conducting birding field trips at the 2003 Coopers Ornithological Society Conference in May, and at the 7^th Biannual USGS Colorado Plateau Research Conference. 

  A Continuing Education Scholarship was given to a student by the Wildlife Society to pay for their registration fee for the Coopers Ornithological Society Conference.

Field trip to the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitative Center and the Wildlife World Zoo in Phoenix.

 Jason Andreine feeding the friendly birds at the Wildlife World Zoo

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Awards Received:

Received a plaque from the Society for Environmental Communicators for “Most Festive Information Booth” at the NAU Earth Fest.

Member Steven Martin received the Best Student Poster Award at the National TWS 2003 Annual Meeting in Vermont.

Members Emily Nelson and Chris Calvo received Honorable Mention for wildlife artwork at the 2003 Chalk-a-lot Sidewalk Art Contest for a “Driving Safe at Night to Help Protect Wildlife and Yourself” piece they did.

The sidewalk artists and their wildlife masterpiece.

Received Volunteer Appreciation Certificates from Habitat Harmony and the USGS Colorado Plateau Research Station.

Member Kevin Beiler won 2 awards for best poster at the AZ/NM TWS Conference in 2004

These are just a few of the fun things we have done recently and we need your help to keep the Wildlife Society one of the most active clubs in Arizona! Come join us and help keep it wild!