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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Notable quotable	David Roberts	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'Getting shot is just going to piss off a 500-pound grizzly bear.' -- George Durkee, director of the Ranger Lodge of Fraternal Order of Police, on why it doesn't make sense to allow visitors to carry loaded guns in national parks
Topics: national parks, wildlife (all these topics)

Hiss hiss hooray Reporter waxes poetic on pythons	Sarah K. Burkhalter	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Grist's take on potential python proliferation is, of course, unsurpassable -- but if it were to be surpassed, it would be by this article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Gotta love a paper that gives its reporter some editorial leeway for humor. Some of my favorite tidbits: Biologists estimate 30,000 nonnative giant snakes live in the Everglades, perhaps more. Some have begun appearing in areas outside the park, alarming biologists and also people who don't car ...
Topics: Florida, national parks, wildlife (all these topics)

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)

Hey, We Made a Boo-Boo Yellowstone grizzlies may lose protections, while also losing food source		31 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Hey, We Made a Boo-Boo Yellowstone grizzlies may lose protections, while also losing food source What do beetles, pine trees, grizzly bears, and global warming have in common? Check it: the U.S. plans to lift Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone-area grizzlies. But that move may be premature. Enter: high-altitude whitebark pines, the seeds of which are Yellowstone bears' main food source in late summer and fall ...
Topics: national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Yukon Count on Me Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon		23 May 2006	Daily Grist
Yukon Count on Me Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon Recognizing that halting development is just not feasible (these are humans we're talking about), a group called Y2Y wants to create a wildlife corridor stretching from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon in northwest Canada that would allow animals and people to coexist peaceably. A collaboration of conser ...
Topics: Canada, environmental planning, national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Ursa Rager Green groups divided over next moves to protect Yellowstone grizzlies		08 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Ursa Rager Green groups divided over next moves to protect Yellowstone grizzlies A schism is growing in the environmental movement over Bush administration plans to remove Yellowstone's grizzly bears from the endangered-species list. Bear numbers have roughly tripled since 1975, to about 600 bears today. Some ursine advocates want to call it a story of successful species recovery. They say delisting Yellowstone's bears will ...
Topics: national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Howl's About That? Enviros celebrate 10th anniversary of wolf release		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Howl's About That? Enviros celebrate 10th anniversary of wolf release Today marks the 10th anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park, an area from which they were eradicated by the 1920s. The transplant experiment, meant to help restore wolf populations protected under the Endangered Species Act, stirred strong feelings, both positive and negative, in 1995, and much of that controve ...
Topics: national parks, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Under African Sighs Zimbabwe's Wildlife Suffer Under Political Turmoil		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Under African Sighs Zimbabwe's Wildlife Suffer Under Political Turmoil Zimbabwe's corrupt and troubled government is not only making life miserable for many of the country's people but also for its once famous populations of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other wild animals. By some estimates, up to two-thirds of animals on Zimbabwe's game farms and wildlife preserves have been killed, including endangered speci ...
Topics: national parks, politics, wildlife, Zimbabwe (all these topics)

Orange U Sad? Illegal Logging Could Push Orangutans to the Brink of Extinction		30 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Orange U Sad? Illegal Logging Could Push Orangutans to the Brink of Extinction Orangutans could be wiped out within 20 years if illegal logging continues unabated on two islands in Indonesia and Malaysia, the only spots where the animals live, a researcher warned yesterday. As an example of troubling habitat destruction, anthropologist Cheryl Knott of Harvard University pointed to loggers' infiltrat ...
Topics: Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, national parks, wildlife (all these topics)

No More Elks' Conventions Wolves Help Restore Biodiversity in Yellowstone		30 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
No More Elks' Conventions Wolves Help Restore Biodiversity in Yellowstone Wolves have proven to be a big draw for tourists since they were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, but camera-toting vacationers aren't the only species they've attracted. The park's population of about 250 wolves seems to be spurring a general improvement in biodiversity, helping to bring Yellowstone's ecosystems back into balance. Consider, ...
Topics: national parks, wildlife (all these topics)

Don't Cry, Wolf		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Cry, Wolf The gray wolf, once nearly wiped out in the Lower 48 states, is flourishing in the northern Rocky Mountains thanks to a federal recovery effort that got underway in 1995 with the reintroduction of 14 Canadian wolves into Yellowstone National Park. Now there are nearly 700 wolves in 41 packs in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and the feds are on the verge of declaring victory. T ...
Topics: national parks, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Like Padre, Like Son		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Like Padre, Like Son With no public announcement, the Bush administration has given the go-ahead to two new natural gas wells in the Padre Island National Seashore, which boasts the nation's longest stretch of undeveloped beach and 11 endangered species. Oil and gas drilling have occurred in the Texas park before, but the rate of drilling dropped sharply in th ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, national parks, oceans, politics, Sierra Club, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

No Room at the Inn		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Room at the Inn Banff National Park is the jewel of the Canadian Rockies -- and its most sparkly facet is Lake Louise, famous for emerald waters, dense forests, and glittering reflections of Victoria Glacier. But the peaceful-looking spot is actually a battleground between a large Canadian hotel chain and environmentalists who want to put a stop to a proposed $45 million, six-story addition to the ...
Topics: Canada, lakes, national parks, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Ski-don't		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski-don't There's good news and bad news for environmentalists on the personal-watercraft front. On the up side, the National Park Service announced yesterday that it would permanently close five national parks to personal watercraft. Park officials and much of the general public object to personal watercraft i ...
Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, 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)

Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir?		05 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir? A court in Pakistan ruled yesterday that Britain's Premier Oil can go ahead with plans to test for natural gas in the country's largest national park, which is home to rare urial sheep, ibex, and chinkara gazelle. Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment and Friends of the Earth International say Premier' ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental non-government organizations, national parks, Pakistan, wildlife (all these topics)

Howl I saw the best wolves of my generation destroyed by madness	Susan Zakin	20 Jul 2000	Soapbox
Gray days for wolves. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Protection for the gray wolf, totem animal for the Clinton administration's conservation legacy, is likely to be ratcheted down from endangered to threatened, thanks to a proposal unveiled last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its announcement was a fitting coda to eight years of an administration that we kept wishing would do better. ...
Topics: national parks, politics, ranching, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

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