Quimby Land Deal Angers Hunters
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 14--A representative for conservationist Roxanne Quimby on Wednesday defended her decision to buy a 23,000-acre chunk of Maine's North Woods, arguing that the scenic land was prime for development.
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BRATISLAVA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Environmentalists have attacked the government over  plans for redevelopment of the country's largest national  park after one of the biggest ecological catastrophes in the area  in the last hundred years.
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A close friend of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin said Saturday that he was appalled at reports of people illegally cashing in on the exuberant entertainer's legacy.
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By Tim Thornton tim.thornton@roanoke.com 381-1669  The proposed sale of national forest land, which died amid a national storm of criticism last year, has been resurrected in President Bush's 2008 budget proposal.
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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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By Tammy Alhadef, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--TRINIDAD -- Forty acres of land within the Spanish Peaks state wildlife area were removed from a U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale after a protest by the Colorado Wildlife Federation.
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By JAMES MINTON  ST. FRANCISVILLE - The owners of four tracts for a proposed large- scale development near Lake Rosemound joined Thursday in a lawsuit attacking the project.  A hearing is scheduled Jan. 3 in the lawsuit that adjoining landowners James D. and Laurel B.
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The idea of destroying a swathe of rainforest, home to hundreds of rare species, to clear land for a sugar plantation is an environmentalist's worst nightmare.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Mar. 6--WASHINGTON -- A spat over hunting access on school trust lands  spilled into Washington as concerns from hunters groups and intervention from  Rep.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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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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Discovery of a lone survivor of an unknown Indian tribe in Brazil set off accusations of murder and a struggle over ownership of one of the world's last great wilderness areas.
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By JANE SIMPSON  THE country's last privately owned river has become the first stretch of water at the centre of a community buyout bid.   Locals are preparing to pay almost Pounds 20,000 a mile for the River Ugie to prevent it falling into the hands of wealthy landowners.
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Environmentalists bristle as city moves toward 'shared use' of a local haunt.
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Environmentalists yesterday said they were extremely disappointed by a deal struck in Brussels on fish catches in the North Sea, which they claimed would do nothing to help stock recover.
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One Fool has seller's remorse over Outback Steakhouse.
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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.