Reserve provides safe haven for unwanted exotic animals
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida - Lions, tigers, a bear and now ligers too. Ligers?
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Completing US-Mexico border wall would be daunting task
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Close to the southern tip of Texas a border wall suddenly ends. Its final post sits in a dry cornfield half a mile from the nearest bend in the Rio Grande river, the actual border...
View ArticleBiologists hope commercial fishing will end carp invasion
BURNS, Oregon - Malheur National Wildlife Refuge managers say they're hoping a commercial fishing endeavor will curb a carp invasion at the migratory bird sanctuary south of Burns.
View ArticleCommercial fishing aimed at carp invasion at Malheur Refuge
BURNS, Oregon - Biologists hope commercial fishing will end a carp invasion at Malheur Wildlife Refuge, years after the bottom-feeding fish completed a takeover of Malheur Lake.
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Key things to know about federal land ownership in the West
An armed group occupying the headquarters of a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon wants the federal government to relinquish the land to local officials so it becomes more accessible for...
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Man behind armed Oregon band says he's on mission from God
PORTLAND, Oregon - The man behind the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge comes from a Mormon family that has been challenging government authority for at least two decades.
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Diverse interests split on best way to manage public land
BOISE, Idaho - An armed group occupying the headquarters of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon wants the federal government to relinquish about 300 square miles to local control so it can be opened...
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Ranchers cited by armed group have reputation for kindness
PORTLAND, Oregon - A prominent ranching family whose legal case sparked an armed occupation of a wildlife preserve has lived for three generations in Oregon's high desert, building a large cattle...
View ArticleWinter survey shows more than 70 bald eagles at NY refuge
SENECA FALLS, New York - More than 70 bald eagles have been counted in a midwinter survey at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in central New York.
View ArticleConservationist creates endowment for Indiana prairie
GRIFFITH, Indiana - A northwestern Indiana conservationist has created an endowment that will help pay for the stewardship of one of the state's last remaining prairies.
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4,000 artifacts stored at Oregon refuge held by armed group
Thousands of archaeological artifacts - and maps detailing where more can be found - are kept inside the national wildlife refuge buildings currently being held by an armed group of protestors angry...
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Couple's book recalls grisly 1973 killings in NW Iowa
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - When Phil Hamman, 57, first heard about the grisly murders that occurred at Gitchie Manitou State Preserves on Nov. 17, 1973, he was overcome with emotion.
View ArticleNonprofit seeks information about elk's death near Tahlequah
TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma - A nonprofit is offering a $1,000 reward for information about the death of a nearly 9-year-old elk killed in a nature preserve near Tahlequah.
View ArticleMandatory minimum sentences play a role in ranching standoff
PORTLAND, Oregon - The seeds of this month's insurrection at a Harney County wildlife refuge were planted in an unusual midnight deal struck in 2012 between prosecutors and Harney County ranchers...
View ArticleReward offered in search for elk poachers in Oklahoma
TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma - A reward is being offered in the search for the poachers who killed a popular elk at a northwestern Oklahoma nature preserve and cut off the animal's head.
View ArticleSenator moves to halt proposed ban on Alaska predator hunts
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is looking to stop a proposed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ban on some bear, wolf and coyote hunts on federal wildlife refuges in the state.
View ArticleUS Fish and Wildlife Service: Expand wildlife habitat
CONCORD, New Hampshire - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to establish the "Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge," areas of New England and New York to preserve more shrubland and...
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Key things to know about federal land grazing in the West
BOISE, Idaho - Two brothers leading an armed group that has taken up residence for nearly three weeks at a national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon plan to hold a ceremony Saturday for ranchers to...
View ArticleCowboy poets gather in Nevada with eye on Oregon conflict
RENO, Nevada - As troubadours, fiddlers and scribes head to northeast Nevada for a national gathering to celebrate cowboy poetry and culture, the topic of the sometimes tenuous relationship between the...
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Wildfire plan seen as biggest land policy change in decades
BOISE, Idaho - A year after Interior Secretary Sally Jewell shifted the national approach to fighting wildfires across a wide swath of sagebrush country in the West, her strategy is turning out to be...
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