Groups, Agencies Work Together to Preserve Habitat for All Species in Area: Elk Island
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By Melissa Devaughn, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 10--In the deeply forested lands of Afognak Island, fewer than 1,000 Roosevelt elk wander freely, ignorant of the property lines they cross. They ford creeks, climb ridges and wade through kettle ponds.
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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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By Wallace, G K  We must get to the root of eco-problems.  It took threatening to sue, but the Center for Biological Diversity finally prodded the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to add elkhorn and staghorn corals to the federal list of threatened species in June.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 17--Conservation groups and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's administration are considering ways to save a 387-acre tract on the Northern Neck that a Girl Scout organization wants to sell.
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By Naomi R. Patton, Detroit Free Press  Mar. 4--U.S. Fish and Wildlife and Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority officials are joining to manage the 780 acres of wetlands and habitats at Lake Erie Metropark.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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By Ed Fletcher, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--Sacramento County supervisors voted Tuesday to move forward with a plan to protect habitat for endangered and threatened species in a huge swath of the county south of the American River.
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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A marine reserve is to be created off the island of Arran to protect bio-diversity, according to the Scottish government.
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By Story; photos by Monica Laszacs Special to My Life  From budding butterfly gardens and homemade bird feeders to bald eagles and recyclable artwork, residents across Millington and Tipton County learned how they can be conservationists of the earth.
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A sweeping wildlife preserve in southwestern Arizona is among the nation's 10 most endangered refuges, due in large part to illegal drug and immigrant traffic and Border Patrol operations, a conservation group said Friday.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 26--Partners in the project to restore gray wolf populations in Minnesota and neighboring Great Lakes states gathered Monday in the Twin Cities to celebrate the turnover of management from federal hands to states and tribes.
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By RICHARD HINTON  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin its habitat restoration work this week for two species of protected birds, weather permitting.  The project targets six sandbars on Lake Oahe, south of Bismarck.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where  a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days,  needs the type of environmental protections that are given to  better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on 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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HOBART, Australia Wildlife officers are trying to save about 50 whales and dolphins near the coast of a southern Australian island.