The writer reminds us that nature bats last
Items by Dan Oko
Refuges such as the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge are
among the few scattered fragments of habitat left in Texas' Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
Terrible birth defects among newborns in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley may be caused by agricultural and industrial
pollution, but no one knows for sure.
Bart, the famous acting grizzly, is the spokesbear for
Colorado State University's Animal Cancer Center's new research
facility, following the bear's own recent brush with
cancer.
Forest Service engineer Annie Connor began her career
building roads and now heads the Clearwater National Forest's
road-obliteration program.
A plan to avoid listing the westslope cutthroat trout as
an endangered species would poison a stream to kill all its
non-native fish; Cherry Creek runs across Ted Turner's Montana
ranch, but opposition to it and Turner, who favors the plan, has
arisen.
Photographer Stephen J. Krasemann is accused of baiting
grizzly bears into his backyard so he could take pictures he then
sold to "National Wildlife" magazine.
A growing number of human-mountain lion conflicts in the
Rattlesnake Recreation Area near Missoula, Mont., has led officials
to end a ban on hunting the big cats there.
Environmental groups formerly at odds rally against Judge
William Downes' decision ordering the removal of all the introduced
wolves.
The Clinton administration is still scrambling to find the
$65 million worth of federal property to pay off the Crown Butte
Mining Co. and keep it from going ahead with its New World Mine on
the Yellowstone border.
The radical environmental group Earth First! feels some
growing pains as a new and younger generation begins to replace the
original activists.
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