When Grizzlies Ruin Eden, Moose Take to the Road
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Joel Bergerâs investigations into the behavior and habits of ungulates have been used to find ways to preserve them and their environments.
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MAN VERSUS BEAST: Overtrapping and overhunting in the early 20th century drove many species &#151; river otters, black bears and Canada geese, for example &#151; from their natural habitats.
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A helicopter is not necessarily a match for an angry moose. Instead of lying down after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, a moose charged a hovering helicopter used by a wildlife biologist, damaging the aircraft's tail rotor and forcing it to the ground.
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By Candus Thomson, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 12--Assateague State Park, famous for its wild ponies, is being overrun by another small, hoofed animal that is eating the plants that hold back beach erosion: sika deer.
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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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Environmentalists win legal round to protect a reptile, but off-roaders push to keep desert areas open.
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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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This year's harsh winter could lead coyotes to venture outside normal habitat areas, which could pose a threat to pets, animal specialists say.
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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A drunk moose staggering through your backyard and nibbling on apples fallen from your tree may sound like an amusing anecdote to tell your friends, but for those Swedes who each autumn come face to face with the angry beasts, it's no laughing matter.
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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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Yellowstone comings and goings -- a rabbit's possible return, and more bison sent to slaughter.
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NAMIB DESERT, Namibia -- The blonde in the cowboy hat stepped forward with slow, swaggering menace, her boots crunching audibly on the sand below. As the camera zoomed tight on her green zombie eyes, the desert beyond completed the scene with the kind of bleached-out desolation no Hollywood studio could provide....
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By Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer  Imagine hunting bald eagles before they were listed as endangered in 1967, or gray wolves before their numbers vanished from the landscape here.
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By POLLY SUMMAR Journal Staff Writer  Zozobra may have been burned Thursday night, but there will be gloom on Escalante Street until a marauding mountain lion is caught.
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Once harvested almost to extinction in the northeastern U.S., beavers have returned in such huge numbers that they are becoming a nuisance in some areas.
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Near a rock formation twisting into the Arizona sky, the desert floor has been torn up by off-road vehicles. A tattered VCR and a bullet-riddled washing machine further scar the landscape. Tonto is one of many national forests that suffer environmental damage caused by thoughtless, even unscrupulous, visitors. And the U.S. Forest Service doesn't have the cash or manpower to tackle the problem.