Rotting Carcasses at Wyo. Plant Removed
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ENCAMPMENT, Wyo. - Around 60 rotting wild game and domestic livestock carcasses were removed from an abandoned meat-processing plant and buried in the Saratoga landfill.
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By Don Jacobs, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 15--Demolition of the fire-ravaged McClung warehouses came to a halt  Wednesday when state officials ordered testing on the debris until further  hauling is allowed.
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Biologists at Washington State University say they have isolated a bacteria that may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the past five decades.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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By Katherine Leal Unmuth, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 18--Lydia Martinez sat in a dirt pile Saturday, potting a burr oak seedling.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb. 3--There are several rusted sculptures near the entrance to Shoal Sanctuary that at first resemble dead dandelions. Jutting up from the ground on rebar "stems," the sculptures are capped by railroad spikes radiating from the apex.
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By EUGENE TONG\\ Staff Writer  GLENDALE -- Incense burned during a grave visit over the weekend ignited a parched lawn at Grand View Memorial Park, leading city officials Wednesday to ban the item from the recently reopened cemetery.
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By Yangkyoung Lee, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  May 30--U.S. Highway 2 in East Grand Forks was cleaned up Tuesday thanks to eight prisoners from Tri-County Community Corrections, of Crookston.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 8--For years, Raleigh's leftovers have been dumped on the northern end of the Dorothea Dix hospital campus.   But the city has turned that trash into treasure.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 8--COLONIE -- The electronic marquee outside a Wolf Road hotel Wednesday looked like something from the sci-fi double feature at a 1950s drive-in: Invasive Plants.
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By MARY HURST  FERNANDINA BEACH - A University of Florida professor recommends soil testing be done immediately to determine whether discoloration and an unusual odor in the damaged Egans Creek Greenway are the result of toxins or simple vegetation decay.
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The site of a former chemical dump that led to an environmental disaster more than two decades ago was formally removed from the federal Superfund list Thursday.
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By Christopher Schwarzen, The Seattle Times  Sep. 20--As the excavator dug out the deep-rooted blackberries from the  shoreline of Barr Creek last week, two men stepped down near the water,  determining where to place the large, woody debris stacked nearby.
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By Harward Esther  Neighbours of a Morrinsville mushroom plant who have complained about a bad smell for more than 10 years vented their frustration at an Environment Court hearing yesterday.
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By TOM KERTSCHER  Work is continuing on the Mequon Nature Preserve. Workers renovating the former Spirit Life Church on the property began removing the roof this month from the church building, which is being transformed into the PieperPower Education Center.
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By Matt Frazier, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 10--Mounds of manure, hay and garbage dumped in the 1300 block of Bonds Ranch Road have been traced to a Fort Worth Stock Show waste-removal vendor, who has agreed to move the piles, a city spokesman said Friday.
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Saguaro National Park managers are trying to eliminate exotic plants that are threatening to crowd out native vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.