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Welcome to the second issue of the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management! In this issue we have more than doubled the number of papers—once again they are impressive in their scope and breadth. Study locations for Articles, Notes, and Surveys range from the Sandhills of Nebraska to the Prairie Potholes of Minnesota, from the Great Lakes of the Northeast to the Big Woods of Arkansas, and from the coasts of Texas to the alkaline waters of Walker Lake, Nevada. The research topics and focal species are similarly diverse, including assessments of wetland changes, habitat usage, and recreational carrying capacity, as well as investigations of predator–prey relationships, population dynamics, and density estimates, to name a few; species include fish, mammals, birds, invertebrates, and reptiles, such as bluegill Lepomis macrochirus, yellow perch Perca flavescens, brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis, Lahontan cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi, elk Cervus elaphus, bobcats Lynx rufus, mottled ducks Anas fulvigula, Lake Erie watersnakes Nerodia sipedon insularum, western pearlshell mussels Margaritifera falcata, and several species of bats, woodpeckers, and turtles. This issue also contains two interesting Issues and Perspectives essays. One makes a compelling argument for changes to the implementation of endangered species laws and the other comprehensively details the history of avian captive breeding and provides insights for current and future conservation efforts.

There are several journal updates of note. First, we are currently working with leading abstracting and indexing services to register for uploading of all content published in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (and our sister monograph journal, North American Fauna), including Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge (Web of Science, BIOSIS, Zoological record); Elsevier's Scopus; ProQuest's Environment Complete; PubMed; EBSCO's Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide; and Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide. This will greatly increase the profile and citation of scientific works published here, and more importantly, it will expand their utility for the conservation community at large. Some of these services should be active before this editorial is published, but the registration process is extremely time consuming and rigorous, requiring up to three published issues and many months to complete for some service providers. Rest assured that all of the past and future content from both journals will be incorporated into these services as soon as possible and new content will be uploaded almost immediately upon release once the services are active. Second, we will soon be checking each accepted manuscript against the CrossCheck antiplagiarism database provided by CrossRef (for more information see http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html) in an effort to actively engage in the prevention of plagiarism. Finally, we are developing a comprehensive data archiving policy for all papers published in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna in order to promote the preservation and maximum use of data, similar to the efforts of many other top journals and societies (e.g., The American Naturalist, Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Ecological Society of America). In fact, for most of the studies in this issue, the data required to replicate the results are included directly in the paper or in the accompanying Supplemental Materials. The new policy will be detailed in the next Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management editorial (i.e., June 2011; see the editorials by Pullin and Salafsky [2010] and Whitlock et al. [2010] for compelling arguments on the critical need to develop ubiquitous data archiving policies).

We will continue to need more experts in a variety of conservation subjects to augment our current group of talented editors and reviewers. For those of you who are interested and have not signed up to be a reviewer, I encourage you to do so by registering at our manuscript submission website (https://jfwm.allentrack.net). Contact me directly if you are interested in serving as a Subject Editor. Please also explore our home page (http://fwspubs.org) to view all Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna papers (all freely available in the public domain), sign up for table of content alerts, track and export citations, share articles, and more.

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