Rural Rights at Risk: KODIAK: Residents Defend Their Subsistence Status to Hunt and Fish.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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The indigenous peoples of the Arctic are told their culture will be threatened by climate warming.
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By Melissa Devaughn, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 10--In the deeply forested lands of Afognak Island, fewer than 1,000 Roosevelt elk wander freely, ignorant of the property lines they cross. They ford creeks, climb ridges and wade through kettle ponds.
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 12--Wildlife activists say recent reports of bald eagles and Canada lynx being caught in hunters' traps provide additional ammunition to a lawsuit that aims to ban trapping in parts of Maine inhabited by the federally protected species.
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For centuries the Tsaatan people have roamed Mongolia with the reindeer that provide their livelihood. But disease and inbreeding now threaten their herds&#151;and cultural future. With photo gallery.
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By SHANNON DININNY, Associated Press writer  TEHEKIN  For generations, residents of this remote hamlet in central Washington's Cascade Range have worked to preserve its rural woodsy character, while promoting it as a scenic tourist getaway.
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By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 9--WASILLA -- A proposed permit to allow exploratory coal drilling  around the Matanuska Valley community of Chickaloon prompted a deluge of  responses from concerned residents and others.
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 24--N ORFORK, Ark. -- One fishing boat stood out on Norfork Lake the other day.   Others were clustered in the shallows, where fishermen worked rocky banks and points.
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Alaska's wolf-killing program to boost moose and caribou numbers is facing a new legal challenge.
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By M. Husairy Othman  PULAU PANGKOR: The last remaining traditional fishing village here is under threat from rapid development on the island.  About 70 families in Kampung Teluk Dalam live in fear of being displaced.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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KOUTS, Ind.  -- The quiet country life can turn into a pressure cooker of stress at harvest time as farmers push themselves to their limits, agricultural experts say...
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With millions of acres of public land available for hunting in Minnesota and Wisconsin, it might seem odd that some outdoorsmen fight over who has the right to hunt on certain land.
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BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their
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The Inuit of the Arctic plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the U.S. is threatening their existence.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.