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Man pleads guilty to smuggling snakes on planes
Samuel L. Jackson would have been cursing up a storm. A Texas man has pleaded guilty to smuggling snakes on several planes from South America to the United States. During a court hearing Wednesday in Tyler, William Lamar pleaded guilty to importing wildlife taken in violation of foreign law. Prosecutors ...
Pa. man charged with illegally killing black bear
A northeastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with illegally killing a black bear. The Times-Tribune of Scranton (http://bit.ly/11XhOgG ) reports that Pennsylvania Game Commission officers responded last week to what was first reported as a road-killed bear in Berlin Township, Wayne County. They found the 550-pound bear had been shot ...
Lawsuits filed against Calif.'s Delta Plan
Several opposing groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May. The four suits, filed over the course of the past month by environmental groups and water users, argue the Delta Plan does not fulfill its two ...
A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus (Howell). June 12. Poverty root of education problems At nearly the last minute, objections and weak-willed lawmakers are halting the implementation of Common Core curriculum standards in Michigan public schools. By kowtowing to overblown fears of a federal takeover of education, the Republicans in ...
Report: Assaults increase on rangers, park police
Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal resource workers. A total of 591 incidents were reported by six land and water agencies in 2012, up 38 percent from the ...
8 men get prison time for poaching bears
A federal magistrate sentenced eight men to prison for poaching bears and deer and other illegal hunting activities in national forests in North Carolina and Georgia. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins from the Western District of North Carolina said Friday the convictions were the result of a four-year undercover investigation called ...
Sick, sunburned bottlenose dolphin rescued in Fla
A sunburned bottlenose dolphin was rescued after being stranded in a thick bed of seagrass at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. A kayaker first spotted the stranded dolphin and SeaWorld Orlando staff later went out to free the adult male bottlenose dolphin Thursday at the Merritt Island National Wildlife ...
US: $30M in restitution owed in lobster smuggling
A New York judge has ordered three men who pleaded guilty to smuggling South African rock lobsters to the U.S. to pay the South African government nearly $30 million in restitution. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Friday the $29.5 million is the largest sum ever ordered under the Lacey Act. ...
Feds: $30M in restitution owed in lobster smuggle
A New York judge has ordered three men who pleaded guilty to smuggling South African rock lobsters to the U.S. to pay the South African government nearly $30 million in restitution. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Friday the $29.5 million in restitution is the largest sum ever ordered under the ...
Conn. chimp victim is denied $150M state lawsuit
A Connecticut woman disfigured by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009 was denied permission Friday to sue the state for $150 million on her claim that officials knew the animal was dangerous but didn't do anything about it. The state claims commissioner released a five-page decision approving the state's motion ...
US researchers explore deep Caribbean reefs
Scientists with the Smithsonian Institution have discovered at least one new fish species at a deep reef off Curacao while conducting a yearlong project to gather data on temperature and biodiversity for monitoring climate change effects in the Caribbean. The discovery occurred in recent weeks off the southern edge of ...
Minn. man pleads guilty to deer poaching in Iowa
Officials say a Minnesota man stole whitetail buck over a four-year period in Iowa. The state Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday that 42-year-old Bradley Slawson, Jr., of Ham Lake, Minn., pleaded guilty to deer poaching charges. He has been ordered to pay $18,000 in civil damages for the illegal ...
Ranchers seek court order to stop water shutoffs
Some of the ranchers facing irrigation shutoffs in the upper Klamath Basin are asking a judge to stop state officials from enforcing newly recognized water rights held by the Klamath Tribes. Klamath County Circuit Judge Cameron Wogan has scheduled hearings Friday in Klamath Falls. State watermasters started telling ranchers Wednesday ...
Endangered frogs released into S. Calif. reserve
Wildlife experts took another leap forward in their efforts to save the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog by releasing 100 froglets at a Southern California reserve, authorities announced Thursday. The juveniles were released Wednesday into a creek at the University of California's James Reserve in the San Jacinto Mountains, about 100 ...
Endangered frogs released into So. Cal reserve
Wildlife experts have taken another leap forward in their efforts to save an endangered California frog. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says 100 mountain yellow-legged frogs were released Wednesday at a reserve in the San Jacinto Mountains, 100 miles east of Los Angeles. The juvenile frogs were released into ...
Man fined for possessing illegally killed elk
A Kalispell man has been ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution for possessing the head and antlers of a trophy elk that was illegally killed in the Bears Paw Mountains south of Chinook. The state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks says 38-year-old Timothy W. Giardina was initially charged with ...
Man pleads guilty to smuggling fish bladders to US
A Southern California man has pleaded guilty to smuggling the bladders of an endangered fish from Mexico. Anthony Sanchez Bueno of Imperial admits he snuck three coolers — 225 pounds worth — of the organ under layers of fish and ice. The bladders came from totoaba fish that live exclusively ...
First Klamath irrigation shutoffs begin in Oregon
With rivers in Oregon's drought-stricken upper Klamath Basin flowing far below normal levels, state water officials started telling ranchers Wednesday they must shut off irrigation to leave water for native fish held sacred by the Klamath Tribes, a federal irrigation project and wildlife refuges downstream. The shutoffs are the first ...
Feds decide not to release wolves in Arizona
It's back to captivity for a pair of Mexican gray wolves that federal wildlife managers had planned to release in Arizona's Apache National Forest. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that the male and female wolves will not be released. The pair had been transported from a captive ...
Cruising Alaska? Alternatives to pricey excursions
It's cruise season in Alaska, with more than 1 million cruise passengers expected between April and September in port towns from Ketchikan to Seward. Cruise passengers who sign up for shore excursions can spend hundreds of dollars, if not more in the case of families, in each port they visit. ...
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