Md. Bear Hunt Opens, First in 51 Years
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Maryland's first bear hunt in 51 years began at dawn Monday &#151; and ended unexpectedly Monday night as the nearly 400 hunters threatened to exceed a state-imposed limit of 30 bears.
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MAPLEWOOD, N.J. - The last thing Lorraine Grossman expected to see as she gazed out the kitchen window of her daughter's home was a 211-pound bear. &quot;I was making a pot of coffee, and I turned around and there he was in the window looking at me,&quot; said Grossman.
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Three bear cubs have taken to riding the rails in Canada&#39;s Rocky Mountains in search of an easy, but dangerous, meal, a national park official said on Wednesday.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 18--Big Wild Life (if you can afford it)   That ought to be the subtext for the new marketing campaign for Anchorage.   Bear-viewing at Wolverine Creek. Flightseeing. King salmon fishing at what appears to be Clear Creek.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 17--Wisconsin's youth deer hunt will be Oct. 7-8. It's open to both resident and nonresident youths ages 12 to 15. Adults accompanying the youth may not gun deer hunt on those dates and cannot accompany more than two youths.
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SAN DIEGO - On his first birthday Thursday, giant panda cub Mei Sheng delighted visitors by playing for the first time in snow delivered to him at the San Diego Zoo. He also sat on his ice cake, wrestled with his mom and got his coat incredibly dirty...
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Bird Rescue : Maryland Natural Resources Police last week rescued a bald eagle from certain death last week, when they found the male bird in Frederick County and took it to a veterinary clinic.
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Hunts in England and Wales meet for the first time since a ban on hunting was forced through Parliament.
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A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt &#151; more than a century ago.
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Fifteen minutes into his third game as a Polar Bear, Bowdoin College freshman Ryan Leary scored the first goal of his college career.
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By Sam Cook, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 24--If you live in Superior, keep your eyes peeled for signs of illegal deer-hunting activity. That's the word from Lois Larson, who coordinates the deer-reduction hunt for the city of Superior.
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By Bradley Olson, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 4--A200-year-old white oak that sparked a statewide conservation effort in 1989 and led engineers to reroute an Annapolis thoroughfare will soon be turned into firewood.
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HELEN, Ga. - A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear. But the encounter last weekend proved fatal for the bear.
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CUMBERLAND, Ohio _ There's something new at The Wilds.  The wild animal/conservation facility just opened a new venue in east-central Ohio: the $5 million Mid-Sized Carnivore Conservation Center.
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By Maggie Borman, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Dec. 10--A visiting bowhunter from Louisiana added to Greene County's deer-hunting statistics, but not by bagging a deer.   Anthony J. Latino, 53, of Robert, La., remains in good condition at St.
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By Alex de Marban Anchorage Daily News  ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The days of state-sanctioned sea lion hunts are long gone in Alaska, but fishermen and hunters who gunned down the sea lions are suspects in the latest study about the animal's crash.
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A long-awaited effort to bring high-end retail to Prince George's County kicked off Friday with the opening of a 14-screen movie theater.