fish wildlife

Celebrating the call of the wild at national refuges

Outdoor Recreation News  Sat, 10/08/2011 - 04:02

That's what we thought, which may explain why the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service , managers of the nation's refuge system, is inviting the public to celebrate National Wildlife Refuge Week Oct.


 

Panel seeks to reduce threat of sea lions to fish

Outdoor Recreation News  Wed, 10/05/2011 - 21:37

Wildlife officials have tried shooting them with rubber bullets, chasing them with boats and scaring them with flares.


 

Fla. boaters warned over flying fish

Outdoor Recreation News  Mon, 04/11/2011 - 12:44

Wildlife officials are reminding boaters that Gulf sturgeon as long as 8 feet and weighing 200 pounds are migrating into the Suwannee River this month.


 

It's official: No eastern cougars left in North Carolina

Outdoor Recreation News  Thu, 03/03/2011 - 12:46

The cougar apparently no longer exists in the wild in the Southern Mountains. It probably won't put an end to the sightings, but the U.S.

Fish & Wildlife Service has made it official: the eastern cougar is extinct.


 

Cops: Chemical in Fox River killed fish, wildlife

Outdoor Recreation News  Mon, 05/17/2010 - 13:40

Illinois Conservation Police are investigating the alleged dumping of chemicals into the Fox River that left fish and wildlife dead.


 

Hammerheads get protection at UN meeting

Outdoor Recreation News  Tue, 03/23/2010 - 06:58

Tom Strickland, the U.S. Assistant Interior Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said regional fisheries bodies have done nothing to regulate the trade in endangered scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead as well as the threatened smooth hammerhead, and their numbers have dropped by as much as 85 percent.


 

New protections set for Twain's jumping frog

Outdoor Recreation News  Tue, 03/16/2010 - 23:42

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service shows a California red-legged frog.


 

Fish & Wildlife sued over salamander

Outdoor Recreation News  Thu, 12/31/2009 - 09:13

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is being sued over a small salamander found only in northern New Mexico.


 

Discordant decisions: A protected habitat is proposed for endang...

Outdoor Recreation News  Sat, 10/24/2009 - 08:51

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed designating some 200,000 square miles of lands and waters along the north coast of Alaska as "critical habitat" for endangered polar bears .


 

Montana rancher protests wolves by banning hunts

Outdoor Recreation News  Fri, 10/23/2009 - 15:00

A southwestern Montana rancher says he's withdrawing his property from a public hunting program, on grounds that the state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks isn't managing wolves properly.