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  • CSI: Critter Crime

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s forensic lab in Ashland, Ore., tackles wildlife crime from around the world.

    by Erin Halcomb, Mar 03, 2008

  • Heard Around the West

    Utah Republican Chris Buttars just doesn’t know how to talk to “those people”; stupid poachers in pickup trucks; earliest recording of “Howl” discovered; more guns in schools – and national parks; and great rental deal in Logan, Utah.

    by Betsy Marston, Mar 17, 2008

  • Heard Around the West

    Flying fish in Colorado; bears are such slobs; berserk llamas and bad-tempered snakes; poachers behaving badly in New Mexico; your opinion on snowmobiles doesn’t matter; brothels and babies don’t mix; fishing with rat glue in Oregon.

    by Betsy Marston, Oct 01, 2007

  • Heard around the West

    Worms at work; stupid hunter tricks; fighting starlings with falcons; cemetery soccer; Schweitzer’s dang-tootin’; Mount Rushmoo

    by Betsy Marston, Nov 13, 2006

  • Life — and death — in grizzly country

    Werner Herzog’s new documentary, Grizzly Man, takes a thoughtful look at the life and death of Timothy Treadwell, an amateur bear biologist who was killed and eaten by an Alaskan grizzly

    by John Krist, Nov 28, 2005
  • Nothing "wise" about advocating poaching

    Nothing "wise" about advocating poaching

    No matter how much you hate wolves, you don't have the right to "shoot, shovel and shut up."

    by Ben Long, Dec 08, 2010
  • Ted Nugent doesn’t speak for me

    Ted Nugent doesn’t speak for me

    Hunters, gun owners and NRA members need an articulate spokesman, but a loudmouth like Ted Nugent is not the ideal candidate.

    by Pat Wray, May 23, 2012

  • Two weeks in the West

    Supreme Court to consider use of mobster law to sue federal employees; water to return to California’s Owens River; Timothy B. Sundles confesses to wolf poisoning; drilling banned on Rocky Mountain Front; Western religion or lack thereof; Christmas tree

    by Staff, Dec 25, 2006

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