To further scrutinize logging practices at the Department of Natural Resources, federal wildlife officials have sharpened the requirements Minnesota must meet before receiving critical funding meant to protect and build wildlife habitat on public hunting lands. The new "site by site'' demand applies to any proposed cutting of timber on more than 1.3 million acres of wildlife management areas .
(KRON) — Someone has been posting fliers around Lake Tahoe encouraging people to feed bears, and give the wild animals access garbage, because “they need it to survive,” the U.S. Forest Service reported. Information on the fliers is categorically false, federal wildlife officials emphasized. “Bears are perfectly capable of surviving on their own, and are […]
Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to show the bird flying through a Louisiana forest.