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Grizzly trapping to start in Madison Range

Wildlife officials plan to trap grizzly bears in southwestern Montana starting Monday and are warning outdoor enthusiasts to be aware of possible increased bear activity. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/L5btEj) that the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team will be trapping the bears through June 18 on private property in ...

Tours show Nebraska pheasant, quail habitat

Landowners and others with interest in conserving habitat for pheasants and quail are invited to tour managed lands. Nebraska Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are hosting a series of 15 habitat tours. The first will be Saturday at Carter Canyon Ranch south of Gering. The series concludes Aug. 16 in ...

Federal officials announces 20K youth summer jobs

More than 20,000 new summer jobs will give young people an opportunity to work in America's forests, national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands, federal officials announced Friday. The summer work opportunities are to target people ages 15 to 25 and put them in touch with the great outdoors, ...

EPA: Mining could affect quality of water, fish

The possible failure of a dam holding waste from a large-scale mine near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft watershed assessment released ...

Woman whose fetus died after suicide try gets bail

An Indiana judge set bail Friday for a Chinese immigrant who has spent more than a year in jail on charges that she murdered her 33-week-old fetus by eating rat poison, in a closely watched case that has potentially broad implications for women's rights. The $50,000 bond Judge Sheila Carlisle ...

Moose on the loose triggers police chase in Utah

Utah wildlife officials say a moose went on a jaunt through neighborhoods north of Logan and triggered a police chase. Division of Wildlife Resources officers tried to corner the wandering bull moose on Wednesday morning when the animal ran away. It was stopped when conservation officer Mark Burgess shot it ...

Rescued seal dies off Edmonds in old fishing line

Sandy the harbor seal was found emaciated on a west Seattle beach, rehabilitated at a rescue center and released back into Puget Sound where she ranged widely for less than three months until she became entangled in old fishing line and drowned off a fishing pier at Edmonds. Sandy's life ...

Wildlife group sues for bat-disease documents

A wildlife advocacy group sued the U.S. Forest Service Wednesday for the release of documents on how the agency plans to keep a disease that has already killed millions of bats in the U.S. and Canada from spreading to the Northern Rocky Mountains. The Center For Biological Diversity wants an ...

Scientists discover first-of-its-kind bat colony

Wildlife biologists have tracked endangered bats from a cave in Tennessee to the Talladega National Forest in Alabama, where they discovered something unexpected. Researchers glued tiny radio transmitters to five of the mouse-sized bats to track their movements from White County, Tenn. The researchers expected them to fly north, but ...

South African police seize 10 rhino horns

A South African police spokesman says officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man. Spokesman Vish Naidoo said Wednesday the man will appear in court on Friday on charges ...

Second recent wolf attack kills NE Ore. sheep

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is confirming a second fatal wolf attack on sheep in Umatilla County in the last two weeks. The East Oregonian of Pendleton reports (http://bit.ly/K3uAzd ) that last weekend's attack killed one ram and injured three others, one of which later had to be ...

Group asks judge to halt sea lion killings

A federal judge will decide by the end of May whether to stop the government from killing sea lions that eat endangered wild salmon bottled up at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. U.S. District Judge Michael Simon heard more than three hours of arguments Tuesday on an injunction request ...

Orca death in Wash. still a mystery

It's still unclear what killed an endangered orca that washed up dead on Long Beach, Wash., in February. A report released Tuesday by NOAA Fisheries says the whale died of physical trauma but the cause of that injury is still unknown. Scientists investigating the death did not find signs of ...

Military families to get free national parks pass

Active-duty military personnel and their dependents will soon be able to enter every national park for free as part of an effort to thank service members and their families for the sacrifices they make, the Interior Department announced Tuesday. An annual pass will be made available to members of the ...

Report: Amid problems, US fish stocks rebound

A record number of fish populations have been rebuilt in U.S waters, even as problems continue to threaten the future of the high-profile New England fishing industry, according to a federal report released Monday. Six species that were once considered overfished have rebuilt to optimal population levels in waters from ...

Judge blocks helicopter hazing of wild bison

A federal judge on Monday blocked Montana officials from driving wild bison back into Yellowstone National Park with a helicopter after wildlife advocates argued hazing from the air could harm grizzly bears in the area. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell grounds plans by the Montana Department of ...

Ecotourism project brings 3 NE La. canoeing trails

An ecotourism grant has helped develop canoeing trails at Poverty Point State Park north of Rayville, Tensas Wildlife Refuge near Tallulah and on Bayou Bartholomew near Bastrop, LSU AgCenter agritourism coordinator Dora Ann Hatch says. The trail on Bayou Macon at Poverty Point goes from the historic site to the ...

Teton bighorn sheep move to new range

While the Teton Bighorn Sheep Herd survives each winter on some of the harshest high-elevation slopes in the Tetons, they leave chunks of prime habitat untouched, research suggests. Data from GPS collars also show the bighorns occasionally use historic winter range that researchers previously thought the ungulates had abandoned. Researchers ...

Hope takes wing in butterfly program at prison

In a small greenhouse just outside the fence at Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women, nearly 1,800 rare butterflies await release into what conservationists hope will become their new permanent homes in prairies around Joint Base Lewis-McChord. However, anticipation might be greater among the small group of inmates that is ...

Ohio widow of suicidal animal owner pays taxes

An Ohio widow facing foreclosure has paid back taxes on the rural property where she and her husband once housed dozens of exotic animals before police were forced to shoot and kill most of them last year. Marian Thompson had owed $14,000 for her 70 acres in eastern Ohio near ...