State Drafts Wildlife Plan
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The loss and degradation of habitat pose the most significant threats to hundreds of Florida wildlife species. Lack of funding and enforcement and staff turnover represent the biggest
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By Sara Kennedy and Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 13--PORT MANATEE -- A state fish hatchery at the port is relocating and is looking for a new facility site that will be the flagship for an expanded statewide program just beginning to take shape.
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State wildlife officials announced plans Friday to revive a program to create marine reserves along California's 1,100-mile coast.
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By The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 11--Pierce County Parks and Recreation will hold three public workshops to gather ideas for developing a master plan for the Meridian Habitat Park and Community Center in South Hill.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 14--KENTON -- Wildlife officials think they have seen the first case of a mountain lion preying on livestock in the state.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 12--A wide-ranging, ambitious program of new culverts and bridges  across roads, better land management and preservation is being proposed to  improve wildlife corridors in the state, including three major corridors in  Southeast Arizona.
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By Denis CuffSTAFF  A conservation group announced a deal last week to buy a half- square-mile of spring-fed grasslands and oak forests north of Clayton, where county-approved growth limits scuttled plans to build housing.
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By Chris Niskanen, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 4--Since November, at Gov. Tim Pawlenty's behest, 16 Minnesotans have been meeting to determine a path for conservation in Minnesota.   Not only for walleyes and pheasants, but also a new course for rivers and lakes.
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By The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 17--The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the N.H. Department of Resources and Economic Development Division of Forests and Lands, with support from the Shoals Marine Laboratory and U.S.
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November 30 - PORTLAND - The federal government on Tuesday unveiled its new plan to protect Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Interior Secretary Gale Norton has signed an agreement with representatives of Arizona, Nevada and California to protect wildlife habitat on the Colorado River and aid native species.
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Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Jun. 2--The federal government on Friday announced its plan to protect bald eagles after the bird flies off the endangered species list later this month.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 17--After being sharply criticized for allowing developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, the state wildlife commission on Friday released a plan intended to virtually eliminate the practice and halt the species' decline.
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By Jason Kolnos, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Dec. 15--ORLEANS -- Local parks officials are considering an  unprecedented solution to their piping plover predicament: Get federal and  state regulators to ease rules protecting the threatened species.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 9--Proposed ways of protecting farming in Stanislaus County will go before the public Tuesday and Sept. 18. County officials have drafted revisions to the agricultural element of the general plan.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 21--Maybe it was all the effort focused on state park issues that sucked the wind out of the Texas Legislature's usual willingness to meddle with statutes governing hunting, fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.