Opposing Views of Sage Grouse Danger
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The panel that made the recommendation that the greater sage grouse was in no immediate danger of extinction was provided with two competing reviews of the available science.
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 18--I feel sorry for Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists. Trained as scientists, they are forced to ignore their training and defend bizarre wildlife proposals constantly tinkered to benefit the very wealthy.
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Recent avalanche-related deaths in Utah have stirred debate about where to draw the line between free will and recklessness.
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A decision announced Friday to not list the greater sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species still leaves open the possibility the approximately 1,000 birds remaining in Washington could be listed.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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THE farmer-led opposition to the reintroduction of the White- Tailed Sea Eagle to the countryside exposes them to the charge they are anti-conservation.
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A panel of biologists with the US Fish and Wildlife Service says sage grouse should not be listed as an endangered species. The recommendation has environmental groups threatening to sue.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 4--SOLDOTNA -- Backers of a proposed Kenai River gillnet fishery for Ninilchik residents ran into a thick web of opposition this weekend during the first meetings of a consensus-building group of fishermen.
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Herds growing: South African farmers say they are destructive and dangerous. In the West, they are perhaps the most beloved of the big game species. So a proposal to cull the expanding elephant population is controversial. A12  U.S. attorneys: One of eight U.S.
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OSLO, Norway - It was one of the toughest fights Jorun Lyngstad had experienced during her time as a Norwegian police officer. A wood grouse, Europe's biggest game bird, attacked Lyngstad during a Wednesday bike ride in the woods, ramming the off-duty officer from the side and sending her flying through the air, local media reported...
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TO THE EDITOR:           Thank you for your coverage of the residents' discontent over the development of a 159-home community on the Hawk Valley Golf Course property owned by Jim Fricke.           Of particular concern to us is the future adequacy of the water supply.
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The apparently accidental death of a bear   in the Pyrenees has reopened a bitter row between mountain   farmers and environmentalists over whether bears should ever   have been reintroduced to the region.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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By RUSSELL MAX SIMON Journal Staff Writer  Homeowners in the Quail Run golf course development off Old Pecos Trail are opposing a low- and middle-income development planned right next door.
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MARATHON, Texas  - Naturalist-adventurer Alan  Tennant has tracked peregrine falcons across North America and  does not like what he sees.
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.
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A plethora of prairie dogs present around Hall, S.D., has prompted debate over whether the burrowing rodents should be killed off to benefit cattle ranchers.