A few years ago a wolverine in Glacier National Park found a dead mountain goat in an avalanche off Mount Piegan. While the dead goat was buried under several feet of snow, the wolverine, with its keen nose had no problem finding the rotting goat.
April 5, 2007
Montana: Glacier National Park wolverines prove to be amazing beasts
Delegates work to finalize warming report
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Scientists and diplomats from more than 120 countries debated the urgency of changes in the Earth’s climate Wednesday as they tried to finalize a report on global warming that will guide policymakers for decades to come.
Illinois: Coyote visits Chicago sandwhich shop (video)
CHICAGO - For one day, at least, the roadrunner was safe. It seems the coyote was hankering for another kind of fast food. Employees and customers at a downtown Chicago Quiznos sandwich shop were stunned to see a coyote walk through the propped-open front door Tuesday afternoon and lie down in a cooler stocked with fruit juice and soda.
California Condor lays egg in Mexico
SAN DIEGO - A California condor has laid an egg in Mexico for the first time since at least the 1930s, biologists at the Zoological Society of San Diego announced Monday. If the chick hatches and survives, scientists hope it will herald the return of a breeding condor population to Mexico, decades after the iconic giant of the skies was wiped out there.
Bush vows to veto bill that will fund rural schools and roads
April 3, 2007 — Millions of dollars for schools and roads in Lassen and Plumas counties are included in the bill to fund the war in Iraq President Bush has vowed to veto.
South Dakota: Timber rep says ruling on Bush’s illegal forest changes won’t affect Black Hills National Forest
A federal judge’s ruling throwing out Bush administration rules for logging and other activities in national forests will have no immediate effect in the Black Hills, a local timber industry spokesman says.
“Fortunately, this will play out somewhere else,” said Tom Troxel, director of the Black Hills Forest Resources Association.
Arizona: Visits to Tonto National Forest start with new pass
Back in October, 2006, TNF officials removed all of the fee machines that formerly provided access to more than 50 recreation sites on the Salt and Verde rivers and their associated chains of lakes, and instituted the Tonto Pass, a daily pass that must be purchased ahead of time from one of the nearly 200 vendors statewide.
Alaska: Roadless areas in Tongass National Forest get logging reprieve
Juneau, AK — The Forest Service has agreed to withdraw decisions to conduct new timber sales in wild, roadless areas of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest in order to settle a lawsuit brought by eight conservation groups and one native Tlingit community.