Black bears growing nuisance in West
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Ted Grenda is downright inhospitable toward some of his neighbors, placing plywood strips with nails along his doors and windows.
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Save the women and children first! There's a bear among the BlackBerries!
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday claiming marine mammal regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of oil and gas exploration and global warming.
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BLAIRMORE, Alta. (CP) - A woman who stumbled upon a grizzly bear sow and two cubs in a wilderness area of southwestern Alberta was mauled Thursday but managed to escape.
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The number of grizzly bears with cubs in the Yellowstone area appears to be rebounding, which could bolster efforts to remove the animals from the endangered species list, biologists said Friday.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - Inuit hunters will be able to kill nearly one-third more polar bears in Nunavut this year because of concerns that an increasing number of the predators are prowling the streets of some Arctic communities.
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Up to 60 protected gray seals have been killed off the west coast of Ireland in what a wildlife group described as slaughter. The Irish Seal Sanctuary said the seals -- most of them pups
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For the nation's forest rangers, the serenity of the woods increasingly is giving way to confrontations with unruly visitors.
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By MARK CZERWINSKI  Perhaps you saw the story in Wednesday's paper about the little boy in Middletown who was attacked by a coyote while playing outside a neighbor's house. It was random, non-provoked, and, quite frankly, frightening.
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By Mark Havnes, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 11--The powerful Outdoor Industry Association has weighed in against  a controversial growth plan for Washington County, just days before a  congressional subcommittee is scheduled to take up the matter.
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Violence continues across western part of the country as rival ethnic groups face off
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Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals.
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Hunters and wildlife officers in Utah killed a black bear Monday believed to be responsible for a fatal attack on an 11-year-old boy on a family camping trip.  The boy was sleeping in one corner of a tent when family members heard him scream around 11 p.m.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday, claiming regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of energy exploration and global warming.  The groups say the U.S.
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The conservation agency World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, has warned that man-made chemicals pose a serious threat to polar bears. The WWF says three new scientific studies show
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.