Smokies Park Gets Bugs, Species Funds
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park will receive an additional &#36;1 million in its current budget, most of it for fighting a pest responsible for killing hemlock trees and for a program to catalog organisms found in the Smokies.
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Unusual insects are clinging to survival against threats from pollution and climate change, say conservationists.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia announced yesterday that
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Dec. 17--Loggers will thin out a 47-acre bug-infested swath of mature trees on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest under a proposed forest-health improvement project on the Mount Adams Ranger District.
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State Game and Fish officials will help staff members at Carlsbad Caverns National Park remove exotic fish and amphibians from the pond at Rattlesnake Springs.
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A resurgence of bugs in streams contaminated by a sulfur mine shows that cleanup efforts are restoring water quality and creating a healthy ecosystem.
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--RALEIGH -- An owl hooted. A goldfinch warbled. And a gaggle of City Council members, city officials and environmentalists wandered across the pasture at Horseshoe Farm Park in northeast Raleigh last week.
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By Sara Agnew, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 23--The Columbia Audubon Society has decided not to sell a tract of land at the center of a recent controversy.   Nearly 25 years ago, civic watchdog Paul Albert donated to the society about 8 acres off Route N as a wildlife sanctuary.
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The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.
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Prodded by a lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to designate critical habitat for the endangered Hine's emerald dragonfly.
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CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK, N.M. - State Game and Fish officials will help staff members at Carlsbad Caverns National Park remove exotic fish and amphibians from the pond at Rattlesnake Springs.
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By Tenisha Waldo, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 14--The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission is applying  for a $200,000 state grant to use toward its $1.5 million commitment to help  preserve the uninhabited northern tip of Morris Island.
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Regional government Metro has put together an oversight committee for its Natural Areas program, an initiative that pays for land acquisition and capital improvement projects to protect water quality and fish and wildlife habitat, trails, and wildlife corridors.
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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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By James Amos, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 14--Southern Colorado forests are not affected by the widespread bark-beetle infestations seen in Northern Colorado's lodgepole pine forests.