Though VHS is not a health threat to people who eat or handle fish infected with the virus, it can infect more than 25 game fish, panfish and bait fish species. The fish were collected by DNR fisheries staff during muskellunge spawning netting and were submitted for testing because they had shown external signs of VHS. Staggs offered this advice to anglers: Do not take live fish (including unused bait minnows) away from the landing or shore. Fish managers met today to implement immediate...

With the timber harvest on federal lands barely a trickle of what it was during the peak of the late 1980s, state officials say the logging roads are deteriorating because of Forest Service neglect and threatening to undo efforts to restore salmon runs, particularly in the rivers and streams flowing into Puget Sound. Tri-City Herald: Local Voice of the Mid-Columbia Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, Washington. WASHINGTON -- Back 20 years or more ago, when gear jammers were high balling out of...

About 95 per cent of the traditional waters of the river where John the Baptist was said to have christened Jesus are now sucked dry for drinking water and agricultural and industrial purposes before it can reach the Dead Sea. And the trickle of water that still flows into the Jordan below the Sea of Galilee has been badly contaminated by human waste, fertilizers and chemicals used for farming and fish farming. Because the only tiny stretch of the Jordan that is still relatively clean is...

The tradition continues this Sunday when hundreds of young anglers are expected to flock to the club s pond near Whipple in hopes of landing a catch of a lifetime. Darrin Johnson, 32, of Marietta, said he remembers catching his first fish when he was a young boy at one of the club s events. According to a Marietta Times account of the first derby, the 1,772 fish that weren t caught were later released into area rivers and streams. I ve always said it s a lot better for the kids to be out...

The Washington Cattlemen raised the prospect of renewed grazing of state wildlife lands -- described as a "wildlife habitat improvement" technique -- at meetings with Gregoire in 2005. What's left of the original steppe environment, about 5 percent, doesn't have the sex appeal of an ancient forest. ELLENSBURG -- Sunshine on my shoulders makes me sappy, so each spring reason is found to trek canyons of the Columbia and Yakima rivers while the shrub steppes are in bloom. As a wind rustled...

State lawmakers, Pennsylvania Game Commissioners and sportsmen are all involved in an increasingly contentious, even bitter, fight over management of the state's wildlife. That became apparent this past week, when lawmakers -- unhappy with what they perceive as the Game Commission's unwillingness to respond to them or sportsmen -- fired back. They're listening to their biologists and those of us who believe we have a deer problem that's damaged our habitat and that has to be fixed,"...

CARB is responsible for regulating motor vehicle emissions, consumer product air pollution and toxic air contaminants. An emeritus professor of energy at UC-Berkeley, Sawyer 57 outlined the steps CARB has taken to improve air quality in California since 1940, including reducing the presence of particulates and smog in the atmosphere. Sawyer, who has been its chair since 2005, said the regulatory boards focus on combining government policy with actual science has produced significant...

While camping for a week someplace other than in a motel may be a stretch, she loves the outdoors in her own special way and our kids too are on their way to experiencing a life filled with bugs, frogs, fish and whatever else wiggles or makes funny noises. While camping for a week someplace other than in a motel may be a stretch, she loves the outdoors in her own special way and our kids too are on their way to experiencing a life filled with bugs, frogs, fish and whatever else wiggles or...

Growth of the tourism industry must be in parallel with a sustainable environment development which means Chile is not interested in massive tourism but rather in visitors who have a special interest in nature and wildlife, admitted the countrys Director of the Tourism Office, Sernatur, Oscar Santelices. Chiles tourism policy is not massive but environment friendly. Chiles tourism policy is not massive but environment friendly. Growth of the tourism industry must be in parallel with a...