Hunters off the hook for bison declines
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Big game hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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In the three decades since 18 bison stumbled onto a federal elk feeding ground outside this mountain town, the herd has ballooned to 1,200 animals &#151; one of the largest groups of bison in the United States.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 19--Several days of cooler, damper conditions may be the beginning of the end for both the Gunflint Trail fires and, just maybe, the summerlong drought.
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By Jessica L. De Vault, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Feb. 19--A group of Hunting Country residents are exploring a number of  options to assure that their spacious, rural region is left unscathed from  high-density development.
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An evaluation of Pacific herring stocks in Lynn Canal could land the fish on the endangered or threatened species list, blocking or slowing development in the area.
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WORK by a British scientist may show that humans were not responsible for the bison almost becoming extinct in the 19th century, it was disclosed yesterday.
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MICHIGAN, N.D. - When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe. "It's got no male utilities," said Erickson, who lives in Minot. "It has teats ...
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But they don&#39;t expect competition to cause violence as it did on Sunday in Wisconsin. Tensions are growing among Iowa hunters, who say they are having more trouble finding places to hunt because more land is being set aside for private use.
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. - Five deer hunters died and three were injured on Sunday in an apparent shootout over who could occupy a hunting platform in a northwestern Wisconsin forest.
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The hunting specialist fires a wild earnings miss.
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Yellowstone comings and goings -- a rabbit's possible return, and more bison sent to slaughter.
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While biologists and politicians fight over whether the greater sage grouse should be labeled an endangered species, 10 Western states allow hunters to take aim at the reclusive, ground-dwelling bird.
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By Michael Babcock Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune  GREAT FALLS, Mont.  -- A 10-year-study of mountain lions by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is winding down, and researchers are almost gleeful with what they believe will be the results.
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Once hunted by the thousands, the band-tailed pigeon is in decline. Mathew Tekulsky writes of the joy of seeing five or six of these big birds on his backyard feeder.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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North American bison populations suffered a sharp decline long before humans inhabited the continent, indicating that environmental factors, not hunting, wiped out the animals, according to a study published in the journal Science.
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Western states grapple with how to address an increasing threat to livestock from wolves and big cats.