National Hunting

As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, New Jersey hunters had checked a record 426 black bears in the first Garden State bear hunt since 2005. The NJ Department of Environmental Protection is expecting the number to

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Crews from the San Bernardino County Museum in California are giving local elected officials a glimpse at the tusk of a Colombian mammoth being unearthed at a Las Vegas nature preserve.

By The Associated Press Congress has approved a ban on most imports of bighead carp, one of two Asian species that are threatening to enter the Great Lakes. The bill cleared the Senate last month,

A Trout magazine story on the threats posed by genetically modified salmon-often called “Frankenfish,” says that such a plan poses grave risks to wild salmon fisheries in the U.S. and around the world. The article,

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) Marine Resources Division has recently launched “COASTWATCH,” an Internet based Tip411 tool that enables the public to anonymously report saltwater fishing violations in Alabama’s coastal waters

JEFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – State conservation officials have confirmed the sighting of a mountain lion in northwest Missouri. The Conservation Department says a photograph taken last week by a Platte County landowner clearly shows

Many coastal wetlands worldwide – including several on the U.S. Atlantic coast – may be more sensitive than previously thought to climate change and sea-level rise projections for the 21st century. U.S. Geological Survey scientists

A new, peer-reviewed report titled Feral Cats and Their Management, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has put the annual economic loss from feral cat predation on birds in the United States at $17 billion. The

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