Nature Preserve: Quiet: Dispute Over Elk Damage Subsides
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By Angel Riggs and Michael Overall, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aggravated farmers seem ready to put down their guns now that environmentalists have taken steps to protect crops from wild elk, officials said Monday.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 14--Some people believe that conserving natural resources and protecting the environment are moral issues. An article in Sunday's Messenger-Inquirer written by reporter James Mayse examined that very question.
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Fish and Wildlife has made a recommendation for a small bird that stirs up big controversy. A battle over the protection of the sage grouse rages on between the nationâs energy industry and conservationists.
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Kristen Childress was looking forward to celebrating her sixth wedding anniversary on Saturday. Instead, she spent the day in mountainous terrain looking for her husband, who vanished while elk hunting nearly two months ago.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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MICHIGAN, N.D. - When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe. "It's got no male utilities," said Erickson, who lives in Minot. "It has teats ...
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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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A survey showing higher-than-expected numbers of a unique Nevada butterfly has revived a debate over whether it needs protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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By Kemper, Steve  Save the deer, lose the suburban ecosystem. Save the sea lions, lose the salmon.  In recent years, basic safeguards of land, air, water and species have been weakened or threatened on the grounds that regulations are too protectionist.
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By Sara Agnew, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 23--The Columbia Audubon Society has decided not to sell a tract of land at the center of a recent controversy.   Nearly 25 years ago, civic watchdog Paul Albert donated to the society about 8 acres off Route N as a wildlife sanctuary.
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SALMON, Idaho  - For the first time in nearly a decade, hunters on Saturday begin tracking and killing buffalo on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where federal wildlife managers plan to cut the herd from 1,200 to 500 over the next five years.
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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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Like the woolly mammoth, a giant, prehistoric deer survived the last ice age, a new study shows. So what caused the Irish elk's eventual extinction?
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Sharpshooters will be used to cull an elk population that roams and sometimes rampages through the delicate national park, according to park officials.
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We're hesitant to join in the huzzahs coming from choruses of conservationists and New Mexico politicians over yesterday's reinstatment of the "roadless rule" in America's national forests. A short sigh of relief will do for now.
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JASPER, Alta. (CP) - Wildlife officials were advising the public Tuesday to be cautious in backcountry areas after a cougar attacked a child three days ago near Jasper National Park.