Wolves, Moose in Decline in National Park
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Chased into the Lake Superior shallows, mauled and left for dead by fellow wolves, the young female struggled to shore and collapsed.
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By James Gilbert, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 15--Wildlife officials now have a plan for restoring the historically low population of bighorn sheep to the area.
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A century after they were wiped out by  hunters and a burgeoning population, wolves have returned to  parts of eastern Germany as factories close down, businesses  fail and people move out.
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As chronic wasting disease spreads through populations of deer and elk in some states, hunters are finding that their quarry may not be safe to eat.
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Fourteen years after coming under federal protection, the northern spotted owl continues on the decline in the Pacific Northwest, a study shows.
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SALMON, Idaho  - For the first time in nearly a decade, hunters on Saturday begin tracking and killing buffalo on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where federal wildlife managers plan to cut the herd from 1,200 to 500 over the next five years.
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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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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  May 31--Trouble is stirring where only the deer, elk and sportsmen once roamed.   Washington's wildlife recreation lands have been managed in decent harmony with hunters and fishermen over the past seven decades.
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By DAN JOLING ANCHORAGE, Alaska - America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday.
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The number of large mammals has fallen sharply across most of the planet as a result of human activity, a study says.
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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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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Environmentalists are slamming a proposal to protect British Columbia's dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars.
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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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The presence of wolves in and around Yellowstone National Park has led to changes in elk breeding patterns, likely a significant factor in the decline in elk populations, a study published Friday concludes.
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Forests of spruce trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes--forcing out the species that lived there.
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Officials in three states have said they will to allow hunting&#8212;which could reduce wolf numbers back to dire levels&#8212;if the creatures lose their protected status.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.