Dwindling bat numbers hindering Minnesota study
The number of the bats in Minnesota has seen a steep decline due to white-nose syndrome.
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Missouri Supreme Court rejects captive deer hunts
Ruling involved owners of hunting preserves who challenged regulations imposed by the Missouri Department of Conservation in 2014. The regulations attempt to help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease by limiting the importation of deer and elk into Missouri.
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Patches of algae showing up early in Lake Erie
Researchers say the higher temperatures this summer have brought out the sometimes-toxic algae about a week or two earlier.
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Forest Service agrees to study domestic sheep grazing near bighorns
Federal officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit with environmental groups that prevents domestic sheep from grazing in eastern Idaho until a scientific study addressing how they might threaten bighorn sheep with deadly diseases is completed.
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Officials seeing more Michigan bats infected with rabies
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan officials say they’re seeing higher numbers of bats with rabies. The Department of Health and Human Services says its labs had diagnosed 22 bats with the fatal illness as of June 28. A year ago, the total was nine. Two rabid skunks also have turned up. Rabies is a viral disease
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DEC to anglers: spare heat-stressed fish
The agency also recommends avoiding catch-and-release fishing for heat-stressed trout because they’re unlikely to survive no matter how carefully they’re handled.
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New Hampshire committee: Give loon chicks some space
MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H. — The Loon Preservation Committee in New Hampshire says humans should keep their distance as loon chicks begin hatching on lakes throughout the state. The committee says many loon chicks are hatching in time for the holiday week and they are asking the public to stay at least 150 feet away. Signs of
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Study: Warming winters could lead to another bark beetle spread in Santa Fe area
SANTA FE, N.M. — A bark beetle epidemic wiped out swaths of pinon trees around Santa Fe more than a decade ago, and now new research predicts that warming winters could spell more trouble. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have done a large-scale analysis to demonstrate that higher temperatures allow the destructive beetle to
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Officials: Fish from several western Michigan ponds not safe to eat
BELMONT, Mich. — State and Kent County health officials are asking people not to eat fish from some western Michigan ponds due to elevated levels of industrial chemical contaminants. The advisory was issued late last week after elevated levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate were found in surface water from ponds near the Boulder Creek development in
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