It was just five feet away and Clivia Feliz, crouched between fallen trees, was futilely trying to protect herself. Feliz, a 51-year-old massage therapist and regular Anchorage trail runner, watched it in that time-stopping moment, waiting for its next move. But the bear’s hesitation didn’t last in the woods at Far North Bicentennial Park early [...]
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After a relatively quiet July, the fire season in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness is heating up. Three fires are burning in the vast wilderness area north of Stanley. The Cayuse Fire and the Roan Fire, both located approximately 10 miles northeast of the launch site for the Main Salmon River, are relatively [...]
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IDLEDALE ” Sunday night was hot ” so hot that Scout slept on the floor at the foot of Mack and Jacquie Anderson’s bed while Sam snoozed in a nearby chair. Scout, a 12-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, and her close buddy, Sam, a 3-year-old chocolate Lab ” enjoyed the cool air flowing through the screenless, [...]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ” A woman mauled by a bear in rural Kern County was recovering Wednesday in a Los Angeles hospital as game wardens sought to trap and kill the animal. Allena Hansen, 56, was resting comfortably after undergoing extensive surgery to repair injuries suffered in Tuesday’s attack, Roxanne Moster, a spokeswoman for the [...]
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You cannot deny whats taking place in Idaho concerning the overblown wolf population, or can you? Seems efforts are being exerted to do just that in hopes the wolf lovers and animal rights groups can continue their program of fleecing the public into believing that unmanaged gray wolves in the Idaho, Montana and Wyoming area [...]
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Photo courtesy of Idaho Department of Fish and Game Jerry Chapman shows off his catch”a large white sturgeon”hooked on the Snake River near Hagerman. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is seeking public comment on a new draft management plan that seeks to increase the range and numbers of the game fish in the [...]
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CODY, WYOMING – An Oregon man is lucky to be alive after a bear apparently attacked him while he was sleeping in his tent near Cooke City. 59-year-old Steven Bartley says he fought the bear before it ran away. He spent two days in a Cody hospital for his injuries. Bartley said it felt like, [...]
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Salmon outnumber people in the rugged backcountry outside McCall where Cris Bent and his wife, Nanci, bought a cabin 33 years ago to immerse themselves in the wild, green landscape. Today, much of that terrain is black after several large wildfires swept through the area last summer. Bent, the fire chief for the cabin community [...]
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GRAND JUNCTION ” Ivan James is a bow hunter who happens to own stock in Exxon-Mobil Corporation. Exxon-Mobils profit was $40.6 billion last year, so James in not concerned if he makes a few cents less on his stock this year, he said. Hes more concerned that the oil and gas industry invest in measures [...]
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Rangers in Yellowstone National Park killed a 130-pound sub-adult male black bear because they said it became conditioned to human food, posing a continuing threat to the safety of park visitors and employees. This is the second conditioned black bear to be euthanized since July 10. dtsv.dtse_post_245_permalink = ‘http://www.bullsandbeavers.com/2008/07/26/yellowstone-kills-another-bear/’; dtsv.dtse_post_245_title = ‘Yellowstone kills another bear’;
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Anybody who follows the endlessly volatile wolf issue–and its hard not to follow it with all the news coverage–knows the greens won a big victory last week. Judge Donald Molloy of the U.S. District Court sided with Earthjustice and 12 conservation organizations and essentially relisted, albeit temporarily, the wolf as an endangered species. So, what [...]
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Obama Regulatory Czar’s Confirmation Held Up by Hunting Rights Proponent by: Fox News Cass Sunstein is President Obama’s pick to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at OMB. (Harvard.edu) WASHINGTON — President Obama’s nominee for “regulatory czar” has hit a new snag in his Senate confirmation process — a “hold” by Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who’s says he’s not convinced that Harvard professor Cass Sunstein won’t push a radical animal rights agenda, including new restrictions on agriculture and even hunting.
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CODY, WYOMING – An Oregon man is lucky to be alive after a bear apparently attacked him while he was sleeping in his tent near Cooke City. 59-year-old Steven Bartley says he fought the bear before it ran away. He spent two days in a Cody hospital for his injuries. Bartley said it felt like, [...]
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A US federal judge has restored endangered species protections for grey wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this autumn. dtsv.dtse_post_240_permalink = ‘http://www.bullsandbeavers.com/2008/07/19/wolves-protected-from-hunts/’; dtsv.dtse_post_240_title = ‘Wolves protected from hunts’;
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Only 11 people showed at a public hearing Wednesday to gather comment on a proposed state rule that would designate the gray wolf as a species in need of management. Only four of those that showed said a word, and none complained about the change from endangered to in need of management so much as [...]
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