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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. ...
Truck stop mulls Supreme Court bid to keep tiger
The lawyer for a truck stop owner who is fighting for the right to keep a live tiger on display at Grosse Tete says the case will be taken to Louisiana's Supreme Court if necessary. Jennifer Treadway Morris discussed the case with The Advocate of Baton Rouge (http://bit.ly/1btd6J8 ) after ...
Park Service: moose shooting in park justified
A National Park Service spokeswoman says her agency will not recommend prosecution of an Eagle River man who shot and mortally wounded an aggressive cow moose last week at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Spokeswoman Kris Fister said Tuesday that visitor Robert Sirvid said he and four other ...
Legislative committee reviewing wildlife agency
A legislative committee has ordered a review of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, one of the latest signs of heightened vigilance of the agency's operations by lawmakers. Sen. Christian McDaniel, co-chairman of the Program Review and Investigations Committee, said lawmakers are expected to be briefed on the ...
Wildlife agency to list all chimps as endangered
The Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday called for protection of all chimpanzees as endangered, an action that could affect use of the apes in medical research. The agency's plan would do away with a "split listing" that has labeled wild chimps as endangered but those in captivity as threatened, a ...
Bill to ban lead ammo advances in Calif. Senate
California is one step closer to becoming the first state in the nation to ban lead ammunition for hunting. The state Senate's Natural Resources Committee voted 7-1 on Tuesday in favor of a bill banning the ammunition. The bill — first introduced in the state Assembly by Lakewood Democrat Anthony ...
Bighorns to be introduced in northern Black Hills
South Dakota wildlife officials plan to introduce up to 40 bighorn sheep in the Grizzly Gulch area near Lead and Deadwood in the northern Black Hills early next year. Hundreds of sheep roam Badlands National Park and the central Black Hills, but the animals haven't been present in the northern ...
Thai pet shop owner with 14 rare lions arrested
Thai police found 14 albino lions imported from Africa and hundreds of other protected animals in a warehouse near Bangkok and have arrested a pet shop owner. Birds, meerkats, tortoises, peafowls, capuchin monkeys and other species from overseas and Thailand were found at the warehouse, police Col. Ek Ekasart said. ...
Calif. death row inmate dies of liver disease
California prison officials say a 44-year-old death row inmate convicted of beating a 90-year-old woman to death with a baseball bat has died from liver disease. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement Monday that Timothy Rodriguez died June 6 at the hospital at Corcoran State ...
Scientists want protections for salmon in Tongass
More than 200 scientists have signed onto a letter asking Congress to enact legislation protecting 1.9 million acres of salmon habitat in this country's largest national forest. The proposal is billed at the "Tongass 77," referring to the number of watersheds in the Tongass National Forest that would be protected ...
Park visitor shoots moose, says animal charged
An aggressive cow moose was fatally shot last week at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, prompting concerns that two calves seen in the area since then could attract bears to the park's busy entrance, a park biologist said Monday. A park visitor shot the moose that he said ...
Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software
Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007. The new operating system, called iOS 7, strives for a clean, simple, ...
AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT
Judge dismisses 2nd suit over Cedar Rapids highway IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — For the second time in three days, a judge is dismissing a lawsuit filed by environmentalists seeking to block construction of a Cedar Rapids highway through a nature preserve. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose ruled Monday that ...
Music service, mobile software expected from Apple
Apple is switching from its decade-long practice of naming its Mac operating system updates after big cats. Instead, it's paying homage to the geography of its home state. Apple software head Craig Federighi says the next version of Mac OS X will be called "Mavericks," after an undersea rock formation ...
N. Fla. men accused of taking pontoon dock
They may have just wanted to make some waves and catch some rays. But converting a pontoon dock into a pontoon boat last month turned into hot water for two north Florida men who now face grand theft charges. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says 30-year-old Robert Lee ...
Activist Brockovich arrested while boating in US
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated at Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said. Brockovich was arrested late Friday after breath tests showed her blood-alcohol level ...
Erin Brockovich arrested while boating in Nevada
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated at Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Sunday. Brockovich was arrested late Friday night after breath tests showed her ...
Problem grizzly relocated south of Yellowstone
Wildlife officials have trapped and relocated a grizzly bear that was frequenting a campground west of Cody. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says the sub-adult male grizzly was caught in the area of the North Fork of the Shoshone River on Friday and was relocated the to the Bridger-Teton ...
Fort Pierre man wrote the book on SD butterflies
Butterfly collector Gary Marrone of Fort Pierre knew they were Mormon fritillaries he would catch in his net time and again in the higher elevations of the Black Hills, but time and again they seemed distinct from what he had seen elsewhere. "I collected Mormon fritillaries in the Black Hills ...
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