"Study Faults Efforts at Wolf Management"
A new study overturns conventional ideas about wolf management and predation.
Source: NY Times, 12/04/2014
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"Annual Seed Harvest Keeps Wild Prairies Alive"
"EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. — This year's effort to collect wildflower and grass seeds from surviving prairie remnants has wrapped up."
Source: AP, 12/01/2014
"Shrinking Sea Ice Could Put Polar Bears In Grave Peril By 2100"
"A new study looks at the future of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and finds that by the end of this century, the region might be ice-free for 2 to 5 months, something that puts bears in grave peril."
Source: NPR, 11/28/2014
"Interior Dream Team Parachutes Into High-Stakes Grouse Rescue"
"The Interior Department is scrambling to meet a September 2015 deadline to avert an Endangered Species Act listing for the greater sage grouse -- what some Westerners warn would be a political and economic disaster."
Source: Greenwire, 11/25/2014
"Large-Scale Die-Off of Small Seabird Along Sonoma Coast"
"Scientists up and down the West Coast are monitoring what appears to be a large-scale die-off of young Cassin’s auklets, small seabirds whose breeding grounds include a colony in the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco."
Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 11/25/2014
"Americans Once Almost Ate Wild Turkeys Into Extinction"
"Few people are alive today who would remember when wild turkeys teetered on the edge of extinction after almost being eaten into oblivion. But how that fate was avoided represents what is considered by some to be the greatest conservation success story in American history."
Source: The Dodo, 11/25/2014
Pacificorp Claims the Birds Its Turbines Kill Are Trade Secret
Power company Pacificorp has gone to court to prevent the Interior Department from disclosing how many birds are found dead at its wind-energy turbine sites. AP reporter Dina Cappiello has been writing an investigative series on the birds, including eagles, killed at wind farms in the U.S. The series found that federal regulators have not prosecuted or penalized wind-energy companies when their turbines kill birds and — the government has helped keep the scope of bird mortality secret.
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40% Decline in Polar Bears in Alaska, Western Canada Heightens Concern
"The number of polar bears in eastern Alaska and western Canada has declined by 40%, according to a scientific study that raises more questions about the impact of global warming on the creature that has become the symbol of some of its worst effects."
Source: LA Times, 11/19/2014
"Japan Plans New Antarctic Whale Hunt, But Vows To Slash Quota"
"Japan on Tuesday unveiled plans to resume whale hunting in the Southern Ocean despite an international court ruling that previous hunts were illegal, but said it would slash the quota for the so-called scientific whaling program."
Source: Reuters, 11/19/2014
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