The Wilderness Sportsman

Sad.

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Combined, that amounts to a record 1,098 bison killed this winter, out of an estimated 4,700 bison in the park before the season began.

“Certainly it is a big number,” said Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash.

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The National Park Service’s four units on Lake Superior are joining with an American Indian tribe in an effort to keep a deadly fish virus out of the lake.

About time.

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The Forest Service also is adopting an enforcement approach similar to those applied to hunting and fishing laws: It’s the users’ responsibility to know where they can and can’t go.

“We don’t have to sign these routes on the ground,” DeHerrera said, adding that a forest travel map will be “the legal instrument indicating where motorized access is allowed.”

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Attempting to answer questions about the proposed mine will be officials of the Coronado National Forest, SWCA Environmental Consultants, a private firm hired by the Forest Service to work on the environmental impact statement, and officials with Rosemont Mining Co.

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One eight-hour average reading atop Ajax Mountain in Aspen surpassed new federal ozone standards scheduled to take effect in May. Another sampling site, in the center of natural gas development south of Silt, experienced a relatively high reading.

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After an estimated 4,000 volunteer hours and an inventory of 473 Maintenance Level 1 roads in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest over more than six months, Baker County’s Travel Management alternative is now in the hands of the Forest Service team that’s compiling alternatives for Forest Supervisor Steve Ellis.