Great American Outdoors Act signed into law
The $3B-a-year plan to boost conservation, parks.
A product of the pandemic? Grizzly encounters up significantly in Yellowstone region
Official says there is no straightforward explanation for the increase and it could be chance, but it has not helped that there are more people recreating in the Yellowstone region as the coronavirus pandemic has given them a reason to spend more time outdoors.
U.S. wildlife agency rejects protections for Arctic grayling
The move comes almost two years after a federal appeals court faulted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for arbitrarily dismissing threats to grayling from climate change and other pressures.
House passes Great American Outdoors Act
“It’s probably the most significant conservation bill that’s been passed in the Congress in the last 50 years."
In North Dakota, record number of lakes stocked with walleyes
In the first seven days of this year’s walleye production, haulers traveled more than 8,200 miles and stocked over 150 lakes with 7.6 million fish.
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Pandemic hinders raising of rare whooping cranes for the wild
The COVID-19 pandemic is drastically reducing the number of young whooping cranes to be released this fall to help bring back the world's rarest cranes. Zoos and other places where the endangered birds are bred have had to cut not only staff size but use of two techniques to boost the birds' numbers
This Grizzly bear sighting reportedly furthest expansion east of known grizzly movement
Grizzly bears on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountain Front have expanded in numbers and dispersed into areas where they have not existed for decades.
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Wolf challenges persist for ranchers in elk-rich Jackson Hole
Now it's the Wyoming Game and Fish Department that manages the conflict in this portion of the Equality State. Still, there's an ever-changing ecological system at play here.
U.S. moves forward with plan to end wild bird protections
The proposal would end the government's decades-long practice of treating accidental bird deaths caused by industry as potential criminal violations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. More than 1,000 species are covered under the law.
Deer teeth telling a story of survival in Vermont
Successful deer hunters can now get ages from teeth data – and according to that data, oldest deer harvested last season were a pair of 17-year-old does. Oldest buck was 10 years old.
'Bear Jam' 2020: Wyoming grizzly-viewing experience getting hairy
This year, there were no chaperones, and people were mostly left to police themselves. Sometimes that went smoothly, but other times it's proved to be an ugly affair – and the stakes are high when large carnivores, naive tourists and high-speed traffic are all part of the equation.
Federal agencies move to increase Alaska hunting, trapping
The new rules are designed to allow hunters to kill black and brown bears over bait, black bears including cubs and females with cubs with artificial light at den sites, and wolves and coyotes including pups during the denning season. Hunters can also kill caribou from traveling motorboats and swimming caribou.
For first time, white-nose syndrome attributed to bat deaths in N.D.
And it's just the second time the disease has been detected in bats in the state.
Iowa spring turkey season is one for the record books
Iowa hunters reported harvesting more than 14,600 turkeys during the spring season, which is the highest spring turkey harvest since mandatory harvest reporting began in 2007. The previous high was 12,173 in 2016.
Traditional bikers, e-bikers clash over new trail rules
Thousands of public land users are flooding the public comment portals in what is emerging as one of the most controversial rules in years for the Bureau of Land Management.
Grizzly attacks shed hunter in western Wyoming
And a boater suffered non-life-threatening injuries after he also surprised a grizzly with a cub.
Five moose poached in already-thinning northeastern North Dakota
Five adult moose, including two bulls and three cows, were shot and killed sometime around April 25 through April 30 southwest of Dunseith. One of the cows was pregnant with triplets and had two calves cut out of her.
Elk hoof disease found in California for first time
The disease was first discovered in elk in Washington state in the 1990s and has since been documented in Oregon and Idaho.
Federal, state agencies cancel waterfowl breeding, habitat survey
Officials will use long-term data to predict spring 2020 waterfowl abundance.
Bird-watching soars amid COVID-19 as more Americans head outdoors
With coronavirus restrictions dragging on, interest in bird-watching has soared as bored Americans notice a fascinating world just outside their windows.
Northwestern Wyoming gears up for antler rush
The shed hunting rules and access times shifted this year, both because of COVID-19 and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department bumping the legal start time of the season from midnight April 30 to noon on May 1. As a result, there's a 12-hour period when people can legally hike and ride horses onto the Bridger-Teton National Forest, but not touch the antlers that brought them there.
Study: Whooping crane crowding shows habitat need in Nebraska, Kansas
Disease outbreaks or extreme weather could cause a catastrophic loss of the crane’s current population, according to the study.
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