Colo. looks to thin elk herd in park
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Colorado's top wildlife officer would rather not see the burgeoning elk herd in Rocky Mountain National Park thinned by park employees hunting at night with rifles and silencers.
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Like so many of their National League brethren in the past four years, the Colorado Rockies have struggled to compete against the American League representative.
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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 Ben Dobbin< Associated Press  CASTILE, N.Y. - Turkey vultures with 6-foot wingspans glide on eddies off Inspiration Point, a favorite lookout in Letchworth State Park.
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By THE DENVER POST The Rocky Mountains' recent cold and snow has put a chill on natural gas production.
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Someone is putting the scare into people walking trails at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks by laying down bogus bear tracks. "It's either a person or a circus bear with two left front feet walking on its hands," said state wildlife biologist Harry Reynolds.
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HUNTERS may soon be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet. It&#39;s a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.
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By Anonymous  WASHINGTON - Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg announced Friday a $247,500 grant for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  The money will be used for the organization's new headquarters in Missoula.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jan. 30--SALIDA -- The growing business of ecotourism or "wildlife watching," which annually generates more than $1 billion in the state's revenue, will be the focus of a Colorado Division of Wildlife meeting Wednesday.
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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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By Scott Barker, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 11--KINGSTON -- High on the bluff overlooking Watts Bar Lake in  Roane County, a bald eagle perches atop the tip of a dead tree. From a passing  boat, its body seems little more than an inky scratch on a blue sky.
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By Mike Lee, and Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 22--FORT WORTH -- Fort Worth City Council members held their noses and voted to put $500,000 into a new park at Eagle Mountain Lake on Tuesday while the Amon G.
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Oil and gas development in the Rocky Mountain West is happening too fast, with scant study of the potential effects on fish, wildlife and human health, a conservation group said Tuesday.
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JASPER, Alta. (CP) - A man from British Columbia is facing charges after a large bull elk was illegally shot and killed in Jasper National Park.
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KALISPELL, Mont. -- The famed symbol of the Great Northern Railway was a mountain goat perched on a rock in Glacier National Park.
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The Colorado Rockies are the most religious team in baseball. And they sure could use a miracle now
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.