January 20, 2009

Traverse City, Mich. (AP) — The government is reconsidering its decision not to grant strong legal protection in two national forests, including one in Missouri, for North America’s only dragonfly classified as endangered. The Hine’s emerald dragonfly was added to the federal endangered species list in 1995. It lives in only a few Midwestern wetland

RALEIGH, N.C. (January 14, 2009) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is introducing a guide to help towns, cities and counties grow in a greener, more wildlife-friendly way. The Green Growth Toolbox contains information on the state’s most important habitats, as well as community-planning methods and site-design techniques that can help conserve North Carolina’s priority

Albuquerque, N.M. (AP) — A rare grouse found in a handful of Western and Midwestern states is getting some extra help in southeastern New Mexico thanks to a land purchase that will protect thousands of acres for the bird. The Nature Conservancy announced Thursday it has purchased the 9,170-acre Johnson Ranch, which contains prime habitat

Billings, Mont. (AP) — State and federal officials have recommended relocating a small herd of bison from Yellowstone National Park to a Wyoming Indian reservation, part of a bid to restore a species that once numbered in the tens of millions. The 41 animals are now being held in a federal disease quarantine compound in

Watertown, S.D. (AP) — A Watertown veterinarian euthanized a golden eagle that had been badly injured in a shooting. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the state Game, Fish and Parks Department are investigating the shooting of the eagle, which was put to death Dec. 28 at the Bramble Park Zoo. Both agencies are

Recent historic events in the United States have made headlines around the world, but history was also made in South Carolina only a few short decades ago. Lt. Ulysses Flemming from Eastover in Richland County was hired Jan. 26, 1970 as the first African-American officer for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement. “I

Fresno, Calif. (AP) — The country’s financial tumult is exacting a toll on wildlife in California and Florida, where game wardens are seeing a surge in poaching for money as the economy declines. In California, where officials are calling 2008 “The Year of the Extreme Poacher,” state records show that arrests for the illegal killing

CONCORD, N.H. — Two late-night snowmobile crashes with serious consequences in New Hampshire underscore the need for using caution and understanding your limits when operating snow machines. One incident occurred in Henniker, where Corey Slosek, age 20, a Henniker resident, crashed into a tree on the northeastern shoreline of Upper Pond. Friends he was staying