California's last solitary wolf was reportedly killed in 1924 in Lassen County. Once a widely distributed species throughout the Pacific Northwest, the settlement of European Americans brought the...
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A lot has been written about the reintroduction of the wolf into the wilderness of pristine Idaho as well as Yellowstone National Park. Quotes from ranchers, hunters and conservationists have cover...
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Idaho's governor said Thursday he will support public hunts to kill all but 100 of the state's gray wolves after the federal government strips them of protection under the Endangered Species Act.Go...
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Amid the cacophony of cell phone ringtones these days, add these: the clickety-click-click of a rare Central American poison arrow dart frog, the howl of a Mexican gray wolf and the bellows of an A...
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For campers at Isle Royale National Park, sighting a gray wolf is a rare and thrilling experience.
At least, until now.
Some wolves got a bit too familiar this summer, wandering into c...
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A worldwide scientific effort to catalog every living species has topped the 1 million milestone.Six years into the program the total has reached 1,009,000, researchers report. They hope to complet...
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Wolves in the northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list within the next year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday, a move that would open the population up to tro...
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Grizzly bear and gray wolf populations in parts of the Northern Rockies are considered stable enough by the government to survive without Endangered Species Act protection. But the animals could ge...
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.Kempthorne said that while he doesn't think C...
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Ahead of elections on Sunday, the leader of Turkey's hard-line nationalists flung a hangman's noose from a podium to make a point: He thinks the prime minister is soft on terrorism and should hang ...
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With the new year comes a new Web site and new ringtones featuring the growls, bugles and chirps of dozens of rare and endangered species from around the globe.The Center for Biological Diversity s...
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The barren buttes surrounding this small ranching town will offer scant places for coyotes to hide this weekend as hunters converge for a "calling" contest to see who can shoot the most coyotes.Par...
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