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Two people arrested after 200 minks are released from Pennsylvania farm

Two people are facing charges following the release of about 200 minks from cages at a central Pennsylvania fur farm.
Most of the animals were recovered, according to an official, unlike a similar incident just over a year ago in which thousands of mink were released into the surrounding area.

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It wasn’t a bear that attacked a camper found dead in his tent. Authorities say someone killed him

When Dustin Kjersem was found dead inside his tent at a remote Montana campsite with extensive injuries to his skull and body, it was initially reported as a possible bear mauling.
There have been previous grizzly bear attacks in the forests of southwestern Montana, but investigators found no evidence of any bears at Kjersem’s campsite. They’re now investigating 35-year-old Kjersem’s death as a homicide.

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It’s not just Fat Bear Week in Alaska. Trail cameras are also capturing wolves, moose and more

Millions of people worldwide tuned in for a remote Alaska national park’s “Fat Bear Week” celebration this month, as captivating livestream camera footage caught the chubby predators chomping on salmon and fattening up for the winter.
But in the vast state known for its abundant wildlife, the magical and sometimes violent world of wild animals can be found close to home. Within half a mile of a well-populated neighborhood in Anchorage, the state’s biggest city, several trail cameras regularly capture animals ranging in size from wolverines to moose.

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California’s largest estuary is in crisis. Is the state discriminating against those who fish there?

More than two dozen fishing rods were braced against the railing of San Francisco’s Pier 7, their lines dangling into the Bay. People chatted on the benches, shouting in Cantonese and leaping up when one of the rods bent or jiggled.
One after another, the men and women at the end of the pier reeled in striped bass as long as an arm, and even thicker.
But not King Lee, a 72-year-old retired janitor who takes the bus to the pier almost every day. It had been 10 days since he had last caught anything worth eating. “Lucky, lucky, lucky guy,” Lee said, watching an angler reeling in a thrashing fish. “Today, I got nothing. I hope, later, I get one like this.”

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Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it

An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.
U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris said he struggled to come up with a sentence for Arthur “Jack” Schubarth of Vaughn, Montana. He said he weighed Schubarth’s age and lack of a criminal record with a sentence that would deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on the earth.

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Wyoming moves ahead with slight change to law allowing wolves to be killed with vehicles

People outraged by how a man ran down a wolf with a snowmobile, taped the injured animal’s mouth shut and brought it into a bar last winter failed to persuade Wyoming lawmakers on Monday to outlaw killing predators with vehicles as ranching industry representatives stood by the practice as a useful way to keep predator numbers in check.
After public comments almost entirely opposed the practice, a legislative committee voted unanimously to move ahead with a bill that for the first time would impose penalties for running down predators — but only under specific circumstances.

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A rare condor hatched and raised by foster parents in captivity now gets to live wild

By all accounts, Milagra the “miracle” California condor shouldn’t be alive today.
But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered birds who got to stretch their wings in the wild as part of a release recently near the Grand Canyon. Even after the door was opened Saturday, the birds didn’t immediately leave their pen. After 20 minutes, one condor left the pen, followed 20 minutes later by another condor.

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Illegal Burmese python seized in New York

A 13-foot Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank, authorities said.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation said it got a complaint about an illegally owned snake in New Hartford, in Oneida County, on Aug. 28. Environmental Conservation Police Officer Jeff Hull responded and found the snake in a 4-to-5-foot tank.

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A 12-year-old boy fatally shoots a black bear mauling his father during a hunt in western Wisconsin

A 12-year-old boy shot and killed a wounded black bear as it was mauling his father near their hunting cabin in the thick western Wisconsin woods.
Ryan Beierman, 43, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that he was pinned beneath the 200-pound bruin on Sept. 6 when his son, Owen, fired a shot from the boy’s hunting rifle.
“Owen was a hero. He shot that bear and killed it on top of me,” said Beierman.

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