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Exotic animal regulations head to Ohio governor
Legislation that would tighten regulations on owning exotic animals in Ohio was headed Tuesday to the governor for his expected signature, months after authorities were forced to shoot dozens of lions, tigers and other dangerous wildlife released from a farm last fall. The measure would ban new ownership of exotic ...
Ind. woman whose fetus died in suicide try freed
A Chinese immigrant who tried to kill herself by eating rat poison was free on bond Tuesday after more than a year in an Indianapolis jail on charges that she killed her 33-week-old fetus. Bei Bei Shuai lugged a plastic bag full of her belongings and leaned on her attorney ...
Grizzly trapping to start in Madison Range
Wildlife officials plan to trap grizzly bears in southwestern Montana starting Monday and are warning outdoor enthusiasts to be aware of possible increased bear activity. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/L5btEj) that the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team will be trapping the bears through June 18 on private property in ...
Tours show Nebraska pheasant, quail habitat
Landowners and others with interest in conserving habitat for pheasants and quail are invited to tour managed lands. Nebraska Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are hosting a series of 15 habitat tours. The first will be Saturday at Carter Canyon Ranch south of Gering. The series concludes Aug. 16 in ...
Ohio boys share school, Cub Scouts, cancer battles
Alex Carman is 100 percent boy. The 8-year-old was constantly climbing, digging, swimming, playing — always moving. Then, weeks went by before Alex could go outside. He was a patient at Toledo Children's Hospital, his window overlooking offices and a roof, as the weather warmed. His mother worried how her ...
Federal officials announces 20K youth summer jobs
More than 20,000 new summer jobs will give young people an opportunity to work in America's forests, national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands, federal officials announced Friday. The summer work opportunities are to target people ages 15 to 25 and put them in touch with the great outdoors, ...
EPA: Mining could affect quality of water, fish
The possible failure of a dam holding waste from a large-scale mine near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft watershed assessment released ...
News briefs from around Tennessee at 3:58 p.m. EDT
State says Monroe man killed in house, not car MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A state prosecutor says Monroe County Election Commissioner Jim Miller was killed in a house, not in the car where his body was later found. According to The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/KYMW6Ahttp://bit.ly/KYMW6A ), the assertion by prosecutor ...
Woman whose fetus died after suicide try gets bail
An Indiana judge set bail Friday for a Chinese immigrant who has spent more than a year in jail on charges that she murdered her 33-week-old fetus by eating rat poison, in a closely watched case that has potentially broad implications for women's rights. The $50,000 bond Judge Sheila Carlisle ...
Probe concludes charging 2 in rare crane's death
State and federal officials are recommending charges against two southwestern Indiana men in the killing of an endangered whooping crane. The whooping crane was found fatally shot in January in Knox County. The male bird was part of a nesting pair of cranes taught their migratory path by following ultra-light ...
Moose on the loose triggers police chase in Utah
Utah wildlife officials say a moose went on a jaunt through neighborhoods north of Logan and triggered a police chase. Division of Wildlife Resources officers tried to corner the wandering bull moose on Wednesday morning when the animal ran away. It was stopped when conservation officer Mark Burgess shot it ...
Rescued seal dies off Edmonds in old fishing line
Sandy the harbor seal was found emaciated on a west Seattle beach, rehabilitated at a rescue center and released back into Puget Sound where she ranged widely for less than three months until she became entangled in old fishing line and drowned off a fishing pier at Edmonds. Sandy's life ...
Scientists discover first-of-its-kind bat colony
Wildlife biologists have tracked endangered bats from a cave in Tennessee to the Talladega National Forest in Alabama, where they discovered something unexpected. Researchers glued tiny radio transmitters to five of the mouse-sized bats to track their movements from White County, Tenn. The researchers expected them to fly north, but ...
Court to set bond for Ind. woman in baby's death
A judge this week will consider how high to set bail for an Indianapolis woman charged with murder and feticide for eating rat poison while she was pregnant. A bond hearing for 35-year-old Bei Bei Shuai (BAY BAY SHWAY) will be held Friday in Marion County Superior Court. Judge Sheila ...
Indiana Wildlife Federation gives Daniels an award
The Indiana Wildlife Federation has awarded Gov. Mitch Daniels its Theodore Roosevelt Award for what it calls his conservation leadership. Foundation executive director Barbara Simpson points to the purchase of the 8,000-acre Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area near Linton early in Daniels' administration as a project that "kick started" ...
South African police seize 10 rhino horns
A South African police spokesman says officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man. Spokesman Vish Naidoo said Wednesday the man will appear in court on Friday on charges ...
Military families to get free national parks pass
Active-duty military personnel and their dependents will soon be able to enter every national park for free as part of an effort to thank service members and their families for the sacrifices they make, the Interior Department announced Tuesday. An annual pass will be made available to members of the ...
Judge blocks helicopter hazing of wild bison
A federal judge on Monday blocked Montana officials from driving wild bison back into Yellowstone National Park with a helicopter after wildlife advocates argued hazing from the air could harm grizzly bears in the area. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell grounds plans by the Montana Department of ...
Ecotourism project brings 3 NE La. canoeing trails
An ecotourism grant has helped develop canoeing trails at Poverty Point State Park north of Rayville, Tensas Wildlife Refuge near Tallulah and on Bayou Bartholomew near Bastrop, LSU AgCenter agritourism coordinator Dora Ann Hatch says. The trail on Bayou Macon at Poverty Point goes from the historic site to the ...
Teton bighorn sheep move to new range
While the Teton Bighorn Sheep Herd survives each winter on some of the harshest high-elevation slopes in the Tetons, they leave chunks of prime habitat untouched, research suggests. Data from GPS collars also show the bighorns occasionally use historic winter range that researchers previously thought the ungulates had abandoned. Researchers ...
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