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CORWIN SPRINGS, Mont. - More than a century after Buffalo Bill and others hunted America’s wild bison to near-extinction, researchers at a compound near Yellowstone National Park have launched an ambitious restoration effort.

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BOISE - When Steve Stuebner lost his dog in the Frank Church Wilderness Area he was certain Rosie was gone for ever.

With Rosie’s old age, wild animals and the fact that she had gone missing for an entire week, Stuebner didn’t give her much of a fighting chance.

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“This would be the first wilderness area in Colorado specifically pushed by hunters and anglers,”said Chris Hunt of Trout Unlimited’s Public Lands Initiative.

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The proliferation of ATVs, quads and dirt bikes, and the destruction that some leave in their wake, has prompted other agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, to consider new regulations, too

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GAINESVILLE - When most people visit the national forest, they expect to hear the sounds of a forest - chirping birds, a gurgling stream, wind rustling through the leaves. One of the last sounds many probably don’t want to hear is that of an off road vehicle (ORV) as it travels over hills and through streams.

Famous for his angry rants, Stevens was one of the worst anti-conservation Senators in U.S. history.

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Hundreds of terrified workers at an isolated mining compound in Russia are refusing to return to work after a pack of hungry bears killed and ate two guards.