Great Wolf Pays State for Big Stink
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By Chris Parker, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb.
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By Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 3--Thomas Wood, owner of a now-defunct Chugiak auto repair shop, thought he would get rid of his waste oil and chemicals on the cheap by paying a couple of young men who apparently wanted the stuff to set fires at Jim Creek.
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For sale: A beer-drinking wolf! The sign on a winding road leading from Montenegro's capital to the spectacular Adriatic Sea coastline illustrates how just about everything has its price in the world's newest country.
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A more aggressive approach by local and state agencies to remedying pollution from duck farms is the latest challenge for the local industry, which is also facing high utility, feed and land costs.
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By Bertrand M. Gutierrez, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 3--Winston-Salem State University was fined $27,000 in December for violating state hazardous-waste laws, the third-largest fine statewide last year for such violations.
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Whenever a Washington Redskins offensive lineman commits a penalty, he has to put money into a kitty that is kept by guard Randy Thomas. The "fines" run about $25 per foul, so the enterprise hurts the ego more than the wallet.
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States from Alabama to Wyoming collected such low fees from major polluters that they may have shortchanged efforts to fight air pollution by up to $50 million, an environmental group reported on Wednesday.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--As of Thursday it became official: If you feed wild animals in Pima and Maricopa counties, you may pay a price.   We're not talking about the obvious price that people pay for treating bears and mountain lions with a Disneyesque innocence.
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Land purchase gives Fools something to watch.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--Despite repeated warnings from the state, a prominent Clackamas  County real estate developer allowed his herd of water buffalo to foul a creek  with fecal bacteria, stir up sediment and destroy streamside vegetation.
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Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema was rewarded Friday for his highly successful first season with a new five-year, $7.5 million contract. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved an amended contract on Friday that will increase Bielema's salary from $750,000 to $1.3 million this year.
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Most of the western Great Lakes population of gray wolves was removed from the Endangered Species Act on Monday.  (c) 2007 Bismarck Tribune. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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For campers at Isle Royale National Park, sighting a gray wolf is a rare and thrilling experience. At least, it has been.
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By JAKE RIGDON Journal Staff Writer  Sandoval County has an illegal dumping ordinance written specifically for the area where a number of coyote carcasses were found this week.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jan. 30--SALIDA -- The growing business of ecotourism or "wildlife watching," which annually generates more than $1 billion in the state's revenue, will be the focus of a Colorado Division of Wildlife meeting Wednesday.
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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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Bee Capitol Bureau. Slamming the state for failing to adequately monitor more than $100 million in grants that lawmakers doled out for pet projects in their districts, Controller Steve Westly