Climate Change And Wildfires: Research Explores Link Between Blazes And The...
PASCO, Wash. -- Researchers are flying over Western wildfires to sample the thick smoke they emit and study its role in cloud formation and climate. The data-gathering campaign is intended to help...
View Article>Wildfires leave livestock owners with tough choice
ROUNDUP, Mont. (AP) — With flames shooting over a nearby hillside and the sheriff telling them to get out now, Jim and Candy Tracy made the agonizing decision to leave their three horses behind as a...
View ArticleGlendale bear's transfer to Colorado sanctuary is put on hold
If only the Glendale bear could hire a lawyer. The 400-pound black bear, affectionately known as Meatball as well as Glen Bearian, remained in a quarantine cage at a California sanctuary Wednesday...
View ArticleOutdoors: Some tips in dealing with wildlife
In a Wall Street Journal piece adapted from his new book “Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds,” Jim Sterba lays out the...
View ArticleUPDATE: Bear euthanized after trip through Springs
A nuisance bear that made its way to east Colorado Springs on Thursday morning was euthanized because it had already been relocated once. Colorado Parks and Wildlife has a...
View ArticleBear mauls boy at Colorado bowhunting gathering
DENVER (Reuters) - A marauding black bear tore through a mountain campsite at a bowhunters gathering in west-central Colorado on Friday and mauled a teenage boy, wildlife officials said. The bear...
View ArticleAspen, Colo. officials dealing with influx of black bears roaming city in...
Black bears have descended upon Aspen, Colo. in large number this summer. A recent drought deprived the animals of their natural food sources, prompting them to venture into the city. Aspen is...
View ArticleAmerica Gone Wild
By JIM STERBA This year, Princeton, N.J., has hired sharpshooters to cull 250 deer from the town's herd of 550 over the winter. The cost: $58,700. Columbia, S.C., is spending $1 million to rid its...
View ArticleBears and people should coexist - but not in Colorado neighborhoods
A bear that was tranquilized and moved from a Denver suburb on Monday afternoon was far from the Rocky Mountains. The 300-pound male was about a mile from Interstate 25, near Water World in...
View ArticleFirefighters use diverse tactics to match shifting wildfire challenges
1st Sgt. John Screiber, left, and Sgt. David Meggison battle the Black Canyon fire last month. (Hel en H. Richardson, The Denver Post) Although it has been raging for a month, the wildfires known as...
View ArticleWildfires leave livestock owners with tough choice
ROUNDUP, Mont. — With flames shooting over a nearby hillside and the sheriff telling them to get out now, Jim and Candy Tracy made the agonizing decision to leave their three horses behind as a...
View ArticleTahoe bear killed by wildlife officials; advocate decries act
CARSON CITY, Nev. Wildlife officials destroyed a black bear Monday after they decided the animal was a threat to the public at Lake Tahoe, but a bear advocate called the killing "despicable." The...
View ArticleWildlife managers cite new laws when they say 'don't feed bears' (State of...
October 19, 2012 Contact: Deputy Chief Mike Cenci, (360) 902-2938 Wildlife managers cite new laws when they say 'don't feed bears' OLYMPIA - As black bears make their usual fall showing in...
View ArticleNevada wildlife officials euthanize Tahoe bear
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Wildlife officials destroyed a black bear Monday after they decided the animal was a threat to the public at Lake Tahoe but a bear advocate called the killing "despicable." The...
View ArticleWest Fork fire complex in Colorado feeding on beetle-ravaged forests
South Fork covered by smoke from the West Fork on Saturday. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post) Related Jun 23:East Peak fire gets a controlled burn from firefighters in ColoradoEast Peak fire crews make...
View ArticleBlack Bear Captured and Euthanized (NPS - National Park Service)
(Source: NPS - National Park Service) Date: July 23, 2013 Contact: Denise Germann, 406 888-5838 Contact: Jennifer Lutman, 406 888-7895 WEST GLACIER, MONT. -Glacier National Park Rangers captured and...
View ArticleBoy Scout camp director under investigation after shooting bear
A criminal investigation is underway after a Boy Scout camp director shot and killed a bear in a Scout camp Wednesday evening. The director and a Scout leader responded to a report of a bear in a...
View ArticleBear hit-and-runs should be a crime: Steve Scauzillo
I brake for bears. That should be the bumper sticker on all our cars and trucks. It is the least we can do to stop the slaughter of bears on the highways. In the last three weeks, two bears have...
View ArticleWildlife Officials Kill Bear That Bit Teen
(CNN) -- Wildlife officials in Colorado say they have killed a bear believed to have been involved in an attack on a teenage boy Friday morning. Park officials used 10 tracking dogs to hunt for the...
View ArticleBlack Forest fire prompts more evacuations, fears of spreading
BLACK FOREST — Shifting winds whipped flames through the winding roads and hills of Black Forest on Wednesday, forcing new evacuations and sending a plume of thick smoke across the Front Range. Dozens...
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