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$3500 reward in fatal poisoning of 2 bald eagles
Federal investigators say someone poisoned and killed two bald eagles in Thibodaux. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national birds. The partly decomposed eagles were found April 11 about ...
Biologist says Iowa's pheasant numbers likely down
A Department of Natural Resources biologist says Iowa's pheasant population likely will decline this year because of the cool and wet spring. DNR upland wildlife biologist Todd Bogenschutz says Iowa's pheasant population usually increases after mild winters and dry, warm springs. This year, a snowy winter was followed by record-setting ...
Pa. man charged with illegally killing black bear
A northeastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with illegally killing a black bear. The Times-Tribune of Scranton (http://bit.ly/11XhOgG ) reports that Pennsylvania Game Commission officers responded last week to what was first reported as a road-killed bear in Berlin Township, Wayne County. They found the 550-pound bear had been shot ...
Lawsuits filed against Calif.'s Delta Plan
Several opposing groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May. The four suits, filed over the course of the past month by environmental groups and water users, argue the Delta Plan does not fulfill its two ...
Rabid bat found in Hall County home
A rabies alert has been issued in part of Hall County after a rabid bat was found inside of a house in Gainesville. The Gainesville Times reports (http://bit.ly/12QNHed ) the bat was found in a house Friday and has been shipped to the virology section of the Georgia Public Health ...
A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus (Howell). June 12. Poverty root of education problems At nearly the last minute, objections and weak-willed lawmakers are halting the implementation of Common Core curriculum standards in Michigan public schools. By kowtowing to overblown fears of a federal takeover of education, the Republicans in ...
More peregrine falcons released in western SD
Four young peregrine falcons have been released in Rapid City as part of an effort to re-establish a population of the birds in western South Dakota's Black Hills. The Birds of Prey Northwest organization and the state Game, Fish and Parks Department have released 44 peregrines since the $10,000 project ...
Florida oyster farm may be start of new industry
Under a brilliant blue sky, a wet-suit-clad Clay Lovel drops down into waist-deep water, groping in the cloudy jade brine. He tosses away a predatory conch before his older brother Ben, on deck, grabs a hook, and together they haul aboard their Carolina Skiff what looks like an oversized fry ...
Texas tortoise dealing with drought, other dangers
The only tortoise species native to Texas is facing various challenges, including drought conditions, disease and speeding motorists. The aptly named Texas tortoise — which is a state-listed threatened species — has struggled because of the three years of extreme drought in South Texas, its home, The Brownsville Herald reported ...
Groups offer reward for info on missing grizzly
Two conservation groups are offering to pay $6,500 in reward for information leading to the arrest and a conviction in the case of a grizzly bear killed near the Idaho-Montana border last fall. Since the bear's disappearance, the Western Watersheds Project and Cottonwood Environmental Law Center have been trying to ...
Report: Assaults increase on rangers, park police
Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal resource workers. A total of 591 incidents were reported by six land and water agencies in 2012, up 38 percent from the ...
SD officials work to keep wild hogs out of state
South Dakota wildlife officials want to send wild pigs crying all the way home. The state does not currently have an established population of feral pigs, but that appears to be changing. Just a handful of years ago, feral pigs were an easily ignored problem to the south. They weren't ...
8 men get prison time for poaching bears
A federal magistrate sentenced eight men to prison for poaching bears and deer and other illegal hunting activities in national forests in North Carolina and Georgia. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins from the Western District of North Carolina said Friday the convictions were the result of a four-year undercover investigation called ...
Sick, sunburned bottlenose dolphin rescued in Fla
A sunburned bottlenose dolphin was rescued after being stranded in a thick bed of seagrass at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. A kayaker first spotted the stranded dolphin and SeaWorld Orlando staff later went out to free the adult male bottlenose dolphin Thursday at the Merritt Island National Wildlife ...
Scientists hunt for rabbit habitat _ with drones
Scientists in Idaho will be flying military-style drone aircraft over the state's sagebrush sea, not in a bid to find terrorists but to help locate the best habitat for one of West's smallest mammals, the pygmy rabbit. The flights, overseen by University of Idaho, Boise State University and University of ...
Pending sage-grouse listing could impact terrain
"Critical habitat" is a phrase land managers don't often like to hear. The impending Gunnison sage-grouse endangered species listing is bringing attention to the small bird that hasn't been seen displaying its feathers on a Poncha Pass lek — breeding ground — for some time. Should the Fish and Wildlife ...
1 case of rare brain disease confirmed in B.C.
One case of a rare, degenerative brain disease has been confirmed in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, and a health official says two other cases are now suspected. However Paul Van Buynder, chief medical officer for the Fraser Health authority, said late Friday that even if the two suspected cases end ...
In frogs' croaks, volunteer hears nature's pulse
Half an hour past sunset in rural western Hennepin County, Madeleine Linck strains her ears. She's listening, believe it or not, for the sounds of courtship. Frog courtship, that is. Linck is helping with a survey gauging the presence of the state's 14 frog and toad species. She's listening for ...
US: $30M in restitution owed in lobster smuggling
A New York judge has ordered three men who pleaded guilty to smuggling South African rock lobsters to the U.S. to pay the South African government nearly $30 million in restitution. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Friday the $29.5 million is the largest sum ever ordered under the Lacey Act. ...
Feds: $30M in restitution owed in lobster smuggle
A New York judge has ordered three men who pleaded guilty to smuggling South African rock lobsters to the U.S. to pay the South African government nearly $30 million in restitution. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Friday the $29.5 million in restitution is the largest sum ever ordered under the ...
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