Canada's mountain parks try different ways to reduce wildlife carnage
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EDMONTON (CP) - Wardens in Jasper National Park call the short stretch of blacktop "disaster point."
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Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.
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By Tony Henderson Environment Editor  A SEVEN-year project has been set up to protect under-threat wildlife on Northumberland's military training ranges.
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Some Southern Arizona mountains were placed on a short list of places around the world where biological resources are at risk.
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Officials in a rural valley in British Columbia hope that keeping out cellphones will help attract residents and tourists who want to escape to the quiet of nature.
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  Prairie dogs fight for home on the range as suburbs spread. Rodent relocators try to strike a humane    balance of city and wildlife.    BOULDER, Colo.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.
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Rising temperatures in eastern Canada are making it more dangerous for the native Inuit population in the province of Quebec to travel and hunt by snowmobile, and a new study recommends that they return to using the traditional dogsled.
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Colorado wildlife officials recommend using hunting as the best way to get the elk herd in Rocky Mountain National Park down to size.  There are 3,000 elk in the park, and the large herbivores are making an impression on the landscape, chewing up aspen groves and mountain meadows.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  May 31--Trouble is stirring where only the deer, elk and sportsmen once roamed.   Washington's wildlife recreation lands have been managed in decent harmony with hunters and fishermen over the past seven decades.
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Canadian wildlife officials warned visitors to Jasper National Park on Tuesday to be on the alert for cougars after one the animals attacked a five-year-old boy.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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Off-piste skiing, snowboarding and trekking are putting Alpine wildlife under stress, a study concludes.
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EDMONTON (CP) - Climbing ropes will soon take its place alongside news releases as eco-activists seek to bring a more flamboyant style to Alberta's environmental movement.
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Forests of spruce trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes--forcing out the species that lived there.