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April 16, 2018

Charges filed in shooting of white pelicans at Newton Lake

NEWTON, Ill. — Thanks to information provided by the public, charges have been filed against two Newton teenagers in connection with the illegal shooting of American white pelicans at Newton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, discovered on April 3. Five pelicans were found dead at Newton Lake by DNR site staff. Another pelican found shot and wounded was […]

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Last caribou herd in Lower 48 ‘functionally extinct’

Recent aerial surveys indicate that efforts to save the sole caribou herd in the Lower 48 have failed. Just three of the so-called gray ghosts remain in the southern mountain caribou herd, making it “functionally extinct,” according to experts. The herd spends part of its time in northern Idaho’s Selkirk Mountains and Washington state, near

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