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Young New Hampshire girl safe after being swept to top of Swift River waterfall

A 12-year-old girl from Milford visiting the Swift River in Albany, N.H., on Monday, June 18, 2012, slipped off a rock and was swept down the river about 150 feet to the top of Lower Falls.

June 2012

Nevada Game Wardens Investigate Bighorn Sheep Illegally Killed Near Henderson

Nevada game wardens are seeking information on a female desert bighorn sheep (commonly referred to as a ewe) that was illegally shot and killed in the McCullough mountain range, above the Anthem residential community in Henderson on June 6.

June 2012

Gainesville Florida man injured by alligator

A Gainesville man was bitten by an alligator Monday as he was swimming.

June 2012

Test confirms, pup is wild wolf near Ketchum, Idaho

A DNA test shows that a pup picked up outside Ketchum on May 25 is a wild wolf.

June 2012
Tennessee Extends Public Caves Closure into Fourth Year to Protect Bats

Tennessee Extends Public Caves Closure into Fourth Year to Protect Bats

Caves located on state lands in Tennessee will remain closed in an effort to slow the spread of White Nose Syndrome (WNS) among the state’s bat population

June 2012
Wyoming tribes spar over proposal to kill eagles

Wyoming tribes spar over proposal to kill eagles

The Northern Arapaho Tribe maintains neither the USFWS nor the Eastern Shoshone Tribe has the right to prevent its members from killing bald eagles for religious purposes.

June 2012

3 arrested for cruelty, killing gopher tortoises in Florida

Two adults and a juvenile from Jacksonville and Middleburg are facing prison time and fines after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) law enforcement officers arrested them in Orange County for killing a state-designated threatened species and for felony cruelty to animals.

June 2012

Leave young animals alone -- Keep wildlife wild

Young wildlife is in the news these days, as two young bear cubs, orphaned when a vehicle collision killed their mother, were caught and taken to a wildlife rehabilitator after days of anxiety about their fate.

June 2012
Mountain lions kill 2 radio-collared wolves in Montana

Mountain lions kill 2 radio-collared wolves in Montana

Mountain lions have killed two radio-collared wolves in the Bitterroot Valley since January, a state wolf specialist in Montana says, and two others were killed last year.

May 2012
Mountain lion killed in downtown Santa Monica, California

Mountain lion killed in downtown Santa Monica, California

Police shot and killed a mountain lion that somehow made its way through an urban landscape before it was found early Tuesday in a downtown Santa Monica office building courtyard.

May 2012