Nonnative Goats Bunking at Yellowstone
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A new study shows mountain goats are taking hold in Yellowstone National Park, but park officials aren't sure how to handle the presence of the nonnative animals.
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VENETA, Ore. - So far nobody has gotten Randy Cox's goat. But Cox wishes someone would. Cox found the affable brown-and-white male in his detached rec room when he came home from work Thursday, and the goat shows no sign of wanting to leave.
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It could be a rock formation from  the U.S. Southwest, carved by water and wind, but this  structure is no cliff dwelling.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 16--Abigail Blake loves animals and wants them to have a good home.   So with the help of the tooth fairy, she did her part to see that they get one at Eagle Mountain Lake.
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Yellowstone cutthroat trout are "holding their own" in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming despite threats ranging from habitat loss and disease to hybridization with other species, state and federal fisheries biologists said Wednesday.
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By JOHN FLESHER  SENEY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Mich. - Tracy Casselman runs a hand over the smooth, gray bark of an American beech, noting the scratch marks left by black bears that have clambered up the tree to munch nuts rich in fat and protein.
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Aerial survey shows antelope and gazelle in what could be one of the greatest natural events on Earth.
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.
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As the gray wolf hovered on the brink of extinction a decade ago, U.S. officials embarked on a controversial plan to open the vast refuge of Yellowstone National Park to the pack-based predators in the hopes of rebuilding the species.
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XIT Gals, a Sidney, Mont., band, will perform for free at 2 p.m. Sunday for free at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston.  The band performs Andrews Sisters' music, as well as tunes by Patsy Cline, Gene Autry, George Strait and others.
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Hindu sky god duly remedies electrical fault Nepal Airlines has apparently fixed an electrical fault on one of its Boeing 757s by sacrificing two goats in appeasement of Hindu sky god Akash Bhairab, Reuters reports.â¦
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By Hillary Borrud, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Mar. 11--LYTLE CREEK -- It still takes some luck or knowledge to sight bighorn sheep in the San Gabriel Mountains, but the chances of spotting one have grown.
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By Matt Tullis, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 18--It's early in the morning and Colo sits in her normal spot, the center of Cage 1. She is wedged between two concrete trees. A milk crate is on her right, and a rope dangles in front of her.
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Some maulings and other incidents involving captive animals in the United States:
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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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 AP Wire Service  CHEYENNE, Wyo.  -- Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.