North Dakota’s first salmon fishery taking hold
Last fall’s egg take was excellent, exceeding the goal of raising 400,000 salmon for stocking purposes.
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Montana plans to keep wolf hunt quotas outside Yellowstone
The proposal that went out for public comment Friday would set a quota of two wolves in each of two Montana management areas outside the park.
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Washington state to continue thinning cormorant population to help protect salmon
Corps officials say the birds eat up to 11 million juvenile salmon annually.
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U.S. halts plan to transfer Montana bison management to tribes
They would still play a “pivotal role” in discussions about the future of the range, 29 square miles of hilly fenced-in grasslands with 350 bison.
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Rural Oregonians defend trapper program, oppose cuts
Budget cut championed by environmental and conservation groups as a long-awaited rebuke of a program they contend needlessly kills thousands of animals each year. But rural Oregonians and ranchers see it as the tone-deaf response of political leaders far removed from the daily realities of a rural existence.
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Study: Bird population in Vermont forests drops 14.2 percent
Study was done by comparing results of bird surveys of 125 bird species done by volunteers every June between 1989 and 2013. It started with 11 survey sites across the state and expanded to 31, all in unmanaged, mature forests from one end of Vermont to the other.
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Officials: Major drop in bat species numbers could interrupt food chain, cave ecosystems in Missouri
Searchers found few bats or found bats that were emaciated and had visible fungus caused by white-nose syndrome.
Coyote-killing devices still allowed in Wyoming
A national debate about the predator-killing M-44 device is unfolding in the wake of a hospitalized teenager and three dogs and a wolf that have been killed recently in Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon.
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Salmon fishing shut down for southern Oregon coast
No chinook and coho salmon fishing for sport and commercial fishers for 2017.
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