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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Elk and Their Ilk Elk populations getting out of control in some national parks		12 Feb 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Colorado, habitat protection, national parks, news, North Dakota, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics)

A letter from the DOI Regarding Badlands National Park	Sarah K. Burkhalter	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: national parks, South Dakota (all these topics)

Wonder If New Orleans Wrote Them a Recommendation Letter Army Corps can continue its Missouri River meddling, Supreme Court says		26 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Wonder If New Orleans Wrote Them a Recommendation Letter Army Corps can continue its Missouri River meddling, Supreme Court says In bad news for enviros (why are we always saying that?), the Supreme Court has declined to hear challenges in three cases questioning the Army Corps of Engineers' authority on the Missouri River. With authority now decidedly in hand, the Corps ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, Montana, news, North Dakota, South Dakota (all these topics)

It's a BUI! Should bicycling drunk be illegal?	Todd Hymas Samkara	06 Feb 2006	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, legislation, placemaking, politics, South Dakota (all these topics)

Have a Cow, Man		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
Have a Cow, Man The state of South Dakota is leading the nation in the Partners for Fish and Wildlife project, a federal conservation program designed to help farmers and ranchers reduce their negative impact on native prairie ecosystems. Conversion of wild grasslands to croplands is a major environmental problem in South Dakota and other prairies states. Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife program, farmers and ra ...
Topics: food and agriculture, ranching, South Dakota (all these topics)

Right Tern		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Right Tern Barge traffic could grind to a halt on a 250-mile stretch of the Missouri River, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled last week that two endangered species of shorebirds cannot be moved to accommodate the release of water from two dams in South Dakota. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned to release water from the ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Missouri River, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics)

Weeping and Railing		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Weeping and Railing Convinced that "potentially significant" environmental problems could be avoided, federal regulators yesterday approved the largest railroad construction project in recent history. The project, a $1.4 billion, 900-mile line linking Wyoming coal fields to the Mississippi River, was okayed after the Surface Transporta ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, national parks, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, South Dakota, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Physics Lab Tests Tensile Strength of Senator		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Physics Lab Tests Tensile Strength of Senator And from the other side of the aisle ... U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), normally thought of as environmentally friendly, is championing legislation to protect a mining company from any liability for environmental damage done in its 125 years of operating in the senator's home state. The company, Homestake Mining, plans to close its gold mine in Sou ...
Topics: mining and drilling, politics, South Dakota (all these topics)

Back in Black		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

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