Zinke proposes expanding hunting, fishing at 30 national wildlife refuges
Staff and News Reports
May 22, 2018
More than a third of those refuges are on lands in the Great Lakes region.
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Researchers: Missouri’s black bear population growing
Associated Press
May 21, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — An ongoing research project by the Missouri Department of Conservation has found that the state’s black bear population is growing. Researcher Laura Conlee told the Springfield News-Leader that Missouri has seen high
Scientists in Wyoming launch study on wind farms’ effects on antelope
Associated Press
May 21, 2018
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Scientists in Wyoming have launched a six-year study of the effect of wind-energy development on pronghorn antelopes. Officials from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife
Cougar kills one mountain biker, injures second near Seattle
Associated Press
May 21, 2018
Rich Beausoleil, the state’s bear and cougar specialist, said it was only the second fatality in the state in the last 94 years.
As elk-caused damages continue to add up, a call to cull in Washington state’s Skagit Valley
Associated Press
May 21, 2018
State to address damages after farmers deem the intrusion of elk on their private property to be illegal.
Bismarck angler breaks long-standing North Dakota walleye record
Site Staff
May 18, 2018
The 15-pound, 13-ounce fish was caught this morning on the Missouri River in Bismarck.
Officials struggle to grasp brutality, scope of poaching ring
Associated Press
May 18, 2018
More than a hundred charges filed in investigation of wildlife poaching that has spanned Oregon and Washington state lines and allegedly left dozens of animals shot illegally and sometimes left to rot.
Watching bird builders achieve annual spring feats of avian engineering
Tony Peterson
May 18, 2018
Hike or paddle the trails and waterways of the North Country these days, and you’ll witness borderline mind-boggling nest-building and rearing of young critters.
No grousing about birds this spring
Sharon Stiteler
May 17, 2018
Consider monitoring prairie grouse from a public viewing blind in Minnesota or the Dakotas.
