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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the ...
Udall seeks feedback on proposed national monument
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the public's help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central Colorado — an area renowned for its whitewater rafting. The Democrat, who held ...
Montana investigates bison deaths near Yellowstone
State veterinarians in Montana have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid fears the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic sheep. Pat Flowers of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks tells the Independent Record (http://bit.ly/113sjdu) that a veterinarian from his agency and the ...
Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean
Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using ...
Rabies confirmed in bat found in Albuquerque
New Mexico health officials are urging parents to tell children not to handle wild animals. The warning comes after a bat found in northeast Albuquerque tested positive for rabies. A number of children were reportedly near the bat and took photographs of it on the evening of May 11, but ...
Jackson students help with lion research
Armed with compasses, good boots and extra batteries, Summit High School students trekked up Cache Creek earlier this month to study cougar habitat with Craighead Beringia South. Two classes of math and science students have been working with the wildlife research institute for the past few months, going out in ...
Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island
Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to back an initiative aimed at expanding protection for the Caribbean's imperiled coasts and waters. The "Caribbean Challenge" calls for special protected zones along at least 20 percent ...
5 things to know in Florida for May 18
Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. STATE'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPPING On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott used a Twitter account — (at)ItsWorkingFL — to announce April unemployment figures dropped to 7.2 percent. The governor called that "great news." That's down from ...
Grizzly bear researcher retiring
One could say that Kate Kendall is retiring at the end of this month as something of a scientific trailblazer for her work in modern grizzly bear population studies in Northwest Montana. Such a pioneer, in fact, that she was selected as the keynote speaker at a recent annual event ...
Correction: Texas Storms story
In a story May 16 about tornadoes that swept through North Texas, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the executive director for Trinity Habitat for Humanity in Fort Worth. He is Gage Yager, not Yeager. A corrected version of the story is below: Texas tornado devastation includes Habitat homes ...
Survey: Bat disease hasn't reached Wisconsin
Wisconsin wildlife officials say a third survey has turned up no signs a deadly bat disease has reached the state. Department of Natural Resources officials say a survey of 73 hibernacula turned up no sign of white-nose syndrome. The disease causes bats to wake up during hibernation and quickly deplete ...
California council adopts delta management plan
A California agency on Thursday unanimously adopted a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. After several hours of public comments and protests by opponents, the Delta Stewardship Council voted 7-0 to approve the final version of the Delta Plan, a blueprint for restoring the delta's ...
Relocated deer adapting in southwest Washington
More than a month after an elaborate multi-agency operation moved some three dozen endangered Columbian white-tailed deer to protected habitat in Clark County, the animals are adapting to their new surroundings. Now wildlife officials turn their attention to the next phase of the unusual project: keeping track of the deer ...
Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator
A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator — the heaviest ever certified in Texas — on his first alligator hunt. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials say 18-year-old Braxton Bielski bagged the record gator last week at Choke Canyon State Park, about 90 miles south ...
Endangered Hawaiian hawks found shot on Big Island
Two endangered Hawaiian hawks were found wounded on the Big Island after apparently being shot with a pellet gun, and federal wildlife officials want to know who is responsible. The hawks were treated at the Three Ring Ranch, a Kailua-Kona exotic animal sanctuary and wildlife rehab facility. One was found ...
Authorities investigate suspicious crocodile death
Wildlife officials are investigating the suspicious death of a crocodile that laid its eggs in a Florida Keys yard. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the carcass was found floating in Florida Bay near Islamorada on Sunday. Spokeswoman Carli Segelson says it "appears to be not a natural ...
Panther kitten rescued, recovering from surgery
A 9-month-old Florida panther has been rescued after a man spotted the injured kitten on his way to work. Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say a homeowner in Collier County saw the panther dragging her rear leg Monday morning. When he returned home from work, he ...
Public may feel left out of SD big-game management
The half dozen people who attended a meeting on big-game management suggested Wednesday that many South Dakota hunters and landowners feel their views are not taken into consideration in the management of deer, elk, antelope and mountain lions in the state. The meeting was held by a consulting firm hired ...
State closes Unit 23 muskox hunting season
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing a muskox hunting season because of illegal killing of animals. Department biologist Peter Bente says in a department announcement that hunting of the Cape Thompson herd will be closed for the 2013-2014 regulatory year in Unit 23 north and west of ...
Top Ind. wind farm drafts bat-protection plans
The operators of Indiana's largest wind farm are proposing changing the nighttime operations of the farm's 300-plus wind turbines to protect endangered Indiana bats from being killed by the turbines' spinning blades. Two of the mouse-sized federally protected species have been found dead since 2009 near wind turbines at northwestern ...
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