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Arizona's western yellow-billed cuckoo to remain protected
PHOENIX (AP) — A beloved cuckoo bird won't go federally unprotected in Arizona. Audubon experts are celebrating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent decision to keep the western yellow-billed cuckoo under the Endangered Species Act, ruling against a petition for its removal, the Arizona Republic...
Lease deal to lead to public shooting range in Michigan's UP
RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has signed a lease agreement, clearing the way for construction of an $800,000 public shooting range in the Upper Peninsula’s Richmond Township. The range will be located west of Marquette on 25 acres previously used...
Researchers try to conserve rare mountain butterfly species
GORHAM, N.H. (AP) — Efforts are underway to save a rare species of butterfly in the mountains of New Hampshire, but scientists are still learning about it and how it may be at risk. The White Mountain Fritillary butterfly is orange and black like the monarch butterfly but with different markings. It's...
Vermont Fish and Wildlife to celebrate 100th wildlife area
SHREWSBURY, Vt. (AP) — Officials from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, the town of Shrewsbury and others on Saturday are going to be celebrating the state’s 100th Wildlife Management Area. The Rutland Herald reports the event in which the name of the area in Shrewsbury will be held...
Illinois joins pact to protect monarch butterflies' habitat
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Four state agencies have signed a pact to protect monarch butterflies and other important pollinators whose numbers are dwindling. Representatives of the Illinois Departments of Natural Resources, Transportation and Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency signed onto...
Feds: Relax protections for woodpecker endangered since 1970
The red-cockaded woodpecker, a bird declared endangered in 1970 and surviving today in 11 states' scattered longleaf pine forests, has recovered enough to relax its federal protection, officials said Friday. But not all wildlife advocates agree. “The red-cockaded woodpecker has flourished to the point that...
Florida wildlife refuge to take 30 former circus elephants
YULEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida wildlife sanctuary is building a new, spacious home for former circus elephants. The White Oak Conservation Center north of Jacksonville is expected to welcome 30 Asian elephants to a 2,500-acre (1,010-hectare) refuge starting next year, the center announced Wednesday. The...
Mississippi receives $23M in federal funds for flood relief
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has received nearly $23 million in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to repair federal roadways that were damaged by severe flooding. U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith announced the five Federal Highway Administration awards on Thursday, according...
Man dies from hypothermia after getting disoriented on walk
ST. GEORGE, Maine (AP) — The body of an 81-year-old man who went missing after going for a walk was found on Thursday, game wardens said. Robert “Bob” Conrad is suspected of dying from hypothermia after becoming disoriented and ending up in an area of woods and briars at the edge of a bog,...
Florida wildlife refuge takes in 120 animals after hurricane
NAVARRE, Fla. (AP) — An animal refuge in the Florida Panhandle has taken in about 120 animals that were either injured of displaced by Hurricane Sally, which pummeled the area with wind and rain on Sept. 16. There are opossums, raccoons, gray foxes, fawns, eastern ground squirrels and flying squirrels,...
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