'Unusually frisky' deer blow lid on marijuana plantation
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Italian mountaintop cervine dopefest Italian police busted two would-be marijuana cultivators after "unusually frisky" deer alerted the authorities as to the presence of their mountaintop dope plantation, UPI reports.â¦
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By Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 10--We all want creepy predators locked up. But not the way NBC does it.   And not the way police handled it in one Collin County town.
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Cars and motorcycles crash into deer more than 4,000 times a day, and it's taking an increasingly deadly toll &#151; on people.
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ROYALTON, Ill. - A worried neighbor's call to Animal Control led to a bizarre scene at a southern Illinois home: Four officers wrestling an alligator out of a hot tub, a house filled with animal cages, and the arrest of a man wanted by the military for desertion...
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Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.
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With Maryland's breeding business falling on hard times, places like the Bonita Farm are forced to find other ways to make money on its land.
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Watching our state's abundant wildlife, like white-tailed deer and flocks of turkey, is one of the joys of Maine life.  It's a thrill to see such marvelous creatures, especially in the backyard.  But Mainers who spread food for these wild animals unwittingly jeopardize their health.
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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 Richard Dymond, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb. 3--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Some Lakewood Ranch residents are uncomfortable "ratting out" their neighbors who are overwatering their lawns.
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BRAINERD, Minn. - Kandi Hanson has a history of run-ins with deer. She totaled her first car and damaged two others in collisions with deer. This weekend, the deer struck back.
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BUCKLEY, Wash. - Pierce County sheriff's deputies were startled when they entered a house near here during a drug bust and found- an alligator.
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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.
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By Max B. Baker and R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 17--Driving around the borders of the proposed Eagle Mountain Lake park, Dave Hooper sees a small group of white-tailed deer feeding in the high grass.
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When 100 farm-raised elk fled his private hunting reserve through a bear-dug hole under the fence, owner Rex Rammell &#151; a man with a long history of locking antlers with the state &#151; didn't realize he'd wind up in the governor's crosshairs.
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Man texts cops flogging 'reefer' A West Virginia man sent a text offering weed to the State Police by mistake Wednesday, and is now cooling his heels in the big house, AP reports.â¦
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Bumper cannabis crops  -  and tighter border controls  -  are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.