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Elk and Their Ilk
Elk populations getting out of control in some national parks |
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12 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:46 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Forget hungry, hungry hippos -- here come the hungry, hungry elk. Three national parks in Colorado and the Dakotas are awash in antlered gluttons, at some places more than twice what's considered a preferable population. "Willow and aspen stands are declining [and] that deprives other species of habitat they need," says a spokesperson for Colorado's Rocky Mountain National ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, habitat protection, national parks, news, North Dakota, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Dropping Trout
Feds trying to boost native fish populations stock Colorado waterways with wrong fish |
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06 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 11:57 AM on 06 Sep 2007 A 20-year effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore endangered native trout populations in Colorado would be commendable -- if they hadn't stocked some of the waterways with the wrong fish. sources: Associated Press, Rocky Mountain News From the Archives EEStor Money. Startup says new technology will make gasoline obsolete ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, dumbassery , news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Varmint Cong
Organic farmers in Colorado ask state to blast rodents out of their holes |
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14 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Varmint Cong Organic farmers in Colorado ask state to blast rodents out of their holes They say life imitates art, but until now, life had stubbornly refused to imitate Caddyshack. Behold! Organic farmers in Colorado have asked the state Division of Wildlife to look into controlling prairie dogs and other burrowing critters by ... blowing them up. Why? Because, in the immortal words of Carl Spackler, "a varmint will never qui ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Pussy Galore
The lynx returns to Colorado |
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21 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Pussy Galore The lynx returns to Colorado After a deluge of depressing news about dying polar bears and baby walruses (who we love and would never, ever joke about), finally some good animal tidings! The fuzzy-wuzzy lynx is endangered in Colorado and threatened in 47 other states, but a Colorado Division of Wildlife program is making progress returning the wild cats to the state. Lynx disappeared from Colorado in 1973, thanks to p ... |
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