Timber cutting, prescribed burns and the construction of a permanent habitat management kiosk will begin this fall with a donation from Federal of $10,000. With a donation from Federal, RGS will begin to rehab this popular area and assemble a permanent kiosk to make hunters aware of the need for habitat management and the work of organizations like RGS. This unique and popular area is where Guillion tested the shape and size of clearcut patches and prescribed burns to determine optimum...

Biologists also suspect they have damaged fish populations by outcompeting bait fish and young game fish for food. Mayor Mike Vestal has offered to resign after admitting that he sent an e-mail containing a racist joke and a picture of a partly naked woman. Zebra mussels are notorious for clogging the intake structures at water and power plants, and for damaging native fish populations. It then showed a picture of a woman with her breasts exposed. The mussels have made wading and swimming...

While there is a lot of focus on trying to get back green cover by trying to plant more saplings, there are many things you can do, to do your bit for the environment. It is designed to suit the climate of the area and uses alternative forms of energy for it s running and maintenance relying on sun, wind and biomass instead of the grid supply. And the energy used mostly comes from cutting forest wood or by using coal, both natural resources that are finite and therefore exhaustive or...

SPOKANE Unlike her neighbors', Rachael Paschal Osborn's yard isn't an expanse of green grass meticulously fertilized and watered on schedule by timed sprinklers. So the grass in her west Spokane yard is brown during the summer, while drought-resistant native plants and her vegetable garden thrive on drip irrigation. Kurt Ungur, a hydrogeologist with the state Department of Ecology, said a warmer climate likely will produce about the same amounts of precipitation possibly a bit more but its...

That's because hunter dollars from licenses, fees and taxes on firearms, ammunition and other gear pay for habitat management and acquisition and wildlife protection. Yet in the same span, the number of wildlife watchers, including birdwatchers, increased from 62 million to more than 71 million. At the same time, Swan is producing a film called "Endangered Species: The Fish and Game Warden," to raise awareness of the critical shortage of game wardens in California, and also is co-author of...

The good news from a barrage of sensors is that many of the worst air pollutants, some of them linked to cancers or acid rain, have declined because of clean air laws in recent decades. A polluting haze that can blur the view in the Arctic springtime has thickened since around the late 1990s, perhaps because of more forest fires caused by climate change or rising pollution from Asia, led by China's boom, scientists say. In the apparently pure Arctic air, a research station on a Norwegian...

By Michael Gardner COPLEY NEWS SERVICE September 9, 2007 SACRAMENTO This time, the frequent visitor fondly dubbed Cinnamon or Baby Bear crawled painfully instead of rambling through a favorite foraging route, one she had followed since she was a cub growing up near some South Lake Tahoe homes nestled in the forest. By Michael Gardner COPLEY NEWS SERVICE September 9, 2007 SACRAMENTO This time, the frequent visitor fondly dubbed Cinnamon or Baby Bear crawled painfully instead of rambling...

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay wants to blend wildlife and jungle habitat with a thrill ride, a children's play area and a dining-shopping-entertainment cluster when it opens its next big attraction in the spring. Instead, the plan for Jungala is to weave tiger, gibbon and orangutan habitats together with human habitats, mixing dense landscaping with paths, waterways, waterfalls, stone structures, a hidden village and other attractions. Busch Gardens' next attraction mixes wildlife habitat,...

Through the presence of Cardinal McCarrick I wish to reaffirm my fervent solidarity with the aims of the project and to assure you of my hope for a deepening global recognition of the vital relationship between the ecology of the human person and the ecology of nature (cf. Your own dedication and personal commitment to the protection of the environment demonstrates the pressing need for science and religion to work together to safeguard the gifts of nature and to promote responsible...