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Personal outreach to landowners is vital to conservation program success

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Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

Newly discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications

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Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world’s most intractable pests, but they’re actually quite tiny and fragile. So when an international team of scientists, including several at Virginia Tech, wanted to observe the underlying mechanisms of how the insects feed, they had to get creative.  

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Tim Kaine joins Senate colleagues requesting hearing on school shootings

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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Democratic colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to call on Chairman Lamar Alexander and Ranking Member Patty Murray to hold a HELP hearing as soon as possible to examine the causes and remedies for school shootings and other mass shootings.