The Lede: Standoff in Minn. Over Elephant Rides
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A childhood rite of passage may be banned in Minneapolis on Friday.
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By Lee Bloomquist, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 16--SILVER BAY -- As all-terrain vehicle riders traveled along a rocky, dusty trail on the edge of Silver Bay on Friday, they passed signs pointing to the city's AmericInn Lodge & Suites, a restaurant and other lodging.
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DODGEVILLE, Wis. - Iowa County sheriff's deputies have searched in the past for the occasional wandering emu or bobcat - but never a kangaroo, until now.
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Farmers and other locals were chasing  thousands of minks let out of their cages at a fur farm in  western Finland early on Friday by suspected animal rights  activists.
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By Zach Spicer, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  May 29--Richard and Kay Schwade had a good reason to attend the open house at the Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center last week.   Their property borders the refuge on three sides.
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LINCOLN, Neb. - Chasing a herd of mule deer with a helicopter might seem less than sporting, but it's also a violation of federal law.  A South Dakota man was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation for chopper-chasing a herd in a Nebraska national forest.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Three people driving through a Thai national park got too close for comfort to a herd of wild elephants who kicked and damaged their vehicles, authorities said Thursday.    The two men and one woman, driving in two pickup trucks through the Khao Yai National Park Wednesday evening, encountered a herd of more than 10 wild elephants, looking for food on the side of the road, said a national park official, speaking on condition of anonymity...
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study  released  yesterday estimates that as many as 23,000 of the animals were slaughtered...
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 12--Lest residents come down too hard on the city regarding the train whistles, this is what I understand happened, in a nutshell.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jun. 18--For a couple of weeks in May, a dispute over off-highway vehicle use in Minnesota's state forests appeared to be resolved. The Legislature had just passed a bill outlining where those machines could go, and Gov.
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San Francisco officials pondered  on Thursday whether to implement an unprecedented ban of  elephants from its zoo because of concerns about their  conditions in captivity.
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Herds growing: South African farmers say they are destructive and dangerous. In the West, they are perhaps the most beloved of the big game species. So a proposal to cull the expanding elephant population is controversial. A12  U.S. attorneys: One of eight U.S.
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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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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent's illegal ivory trade.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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By DANIEL LOVERING Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand . The African elephant has a new line of defense against poachers after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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GUWAHATI, India  - An elephant named "Osama bin Laden" that has killed 27 people in northeast India, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal.