Rancher vows fight with gov't over elk
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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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A handful of pro-hunt protestors have met Peter Hain, the government's leader in the lower chamber House of Commons, after hundreds showed up outside his Welsh home, a spokesman for the Countryside Alliance ...
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  Criminal charges will not be filed in the case of a man who paid more than $3,000 to participate in an outdoor wilderness survival school and died in the harsh deserts of Garfield County.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, under fire from American Indians for telling voters that tribes were "ripping off" the state with their casinos, refused on Friday to back down.
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RENO, Nev. - It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle them.  The saga began Nov.
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Colorado wildlife officials recommend using hunting as the best way to get the elk herd in Rocky Mountain National Park down to size.  There are 3,000 elk in the park, and the large herbivores are making an impression on the landscape, chewing up aspen groves and mountain meadows.
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A national command team and three of the top firefighting teams in the country joined the battle Thursday against a 375-square-mile wildfire that has marched through rangeland during the past four days, threatening ranches, mines and wildlife habitat.
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Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash.
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Cold, hard cash is apparently not enough to quell the anger among landowners over a planned fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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HELENA, Mont. -- Montana moved one step closer Saturday to establishing a long-awaited board to compensate ranchers who lose livestock to wolves.
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By Angel Riggs and Michael Overall, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aggravated farmers seem ready to put down their guns now that environmentalists have taken steps to protect crops from wild elk, officials said Monday.
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The state of Louisiana is on the skirmish lines of a growing fight waged by animal-rights groups, lawmakers and courts over the treatment of animals in relation to sports.
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Veteran actor Harrison Ford is proving to be quite a problem for the government of Wyoming, where he owns a vast amount of property, as he has banned people from hunting elk on his land while the government is encouraging it.
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Eight conservation groups are fighting the US government over a plan to poison thousands of prairie dogs in the grasslands of South Dakota, saying wildlife should not take a backseat to ranching interests.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 14--KENTON -- Wildlife officials think they have seen the first case of a mountain lion preying on livestock in the state.
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By Suzanne Struglinski Deseret Morning News  WASHINGTON -- A New York congressman wants the Bureau of Land Management to stop selling oil and gas leases on federal land in Utah that he says should be protected as wilderness areas.  Rep.
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ALBUQUERQUE -- Despite protests by the governor and environmentalists, the federal government has decided to open nearly all of New Mexico's vast Otero Mesa for exploratory drilling but vowed that the oil and gas industry won't have a ''free-for-all."