Wyoming wild game bird farm hopes to breed sage grouse
Associated Press
September 7, 2017
Farm would be the first in the U.S. to rear greater sage grouse for release in the wild.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
More rare ferrets released on Wyoming ranch
Associated Press
September 5, 2017
MEETEETSE, Wyo. — Biologists have released 13 more black-footed ferrets on a ranch where scientists more than 30 years ago rediscovered the slinky predators after they were thought to have gone extinct. One young ferret
After generations, salmon back in Lake Champlain tributaries
Associated Press
September 5, 2017
It hasn’t come easy, and the process will require continued human intervention to make sure the salmon that hatch in Vermont’s Winooski River or New York’s Boquet River can make it to the lake and
How to capture a Lake Erie grass carp, and what fish biologists can learn from the project
Ohio DNR Reports
August 31, 2017
Increased knowledge of grass carp in western Lake Erie gained through research project allows natural resource agencies to collaboratively develop science-based management approaches.
Groups sue to protect Yellowstone bears as hunts anticipated
Associated Press
August 31, 2017
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are planning limited public hunting of the region’s roughly 700 bears, although no hunts are expected this year.
Business leaders want Mexican wolves in Grand Canyon area
Associated Press
August 30, 2017
They say the wolf-recovery efforts will have economic and environmental benefits.
Idaho officials reject bait hunting plan targeting wolves
Associated Press
August 28, 2017
Idaho hunters are already allowed to kill wolves attracted to bait put out for bears. The change could have allowed hunters to target wolves with bait outside bear season.
Escaping tourism chaos among the barrier islands and ample wildlife of central Florida
Rob Drieslein
August 28, 2017
Vacationing along central Florida’s “Space Coast,” the author and his family carved out an afternoon for the shorebirds, alligators and mangroves of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
What’s a national monument?
Associated Press
August 25, 2017
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending boundary revisions for some national monuments but no eliminations. President Donald Trump ordered Zinke to conduct an unprecedented review of 27 monuments established by former presidents over more
