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Mexican Gray Wolves Gain Protection in Arizona, New Mexico 27 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose increased recovery territory for Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico and will drop plans to capture wolves entering these two states from Mexi...
Interior Sec. Jewell: ‘Not thankless, but controversial’ 27 Aug 2013 | 04:36 pm
In a sit-down afterwards with seattlepi.com, the former Seattle executive and outdoors activist spoke of a job she described as “not thankless, but controversial.” On Thursday, she’ll be out listening...
West on the brink of wild horse crisis 27 Aug 2013 | 04:34 pm
by By Brad Plumer The Washington Post The West is on the verge of a serious horse crisis. That’s the upshot of a new paper in Science, which argues that the wild horse population is growing so fast t...
Wild Horses, We'll Eat Them Someday 27 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
...When traces of horse meat were found in supermarket products in the U.K. in January, many consumers were appalled, but nobody got sick. And, let's face it, given the "pink slime" that’s passed off ...
Federal Agencies Fail to Get Data on Needed Firefighting Aircraft, Audit Finds 27 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
The US Forest Service and the Department of Interior have repeatedly failed to collect information identifying the number and type of firefighting aircraft they need, and have not documented the perfo...
Court Rules Against Montana Law Bucking Federal Gun Rules 27 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against state laws designed to buck federal gun rules — but advocates welcomed the court's decision for leaving open the possibility of an appeal to the U.S. Su...
Colorado county's secession plan would split Erie in half 27 Aug 2013 | 04:28 pm
For Erie, the burgeoning secession movement in northeast Colorado is doubly troublesome as half the town lies in Boulder County while the other half is in Weld County, which last week referred to the ...
Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1086 27 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
This week will be devoted to the Bakersfield Sound referred to by Steve Wilmeth in his most recent column. So what is the Bakersfield Sound? Robert Price described it as "an amalgam of Western Swing...
Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge 26 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
For decades, the vulnerable desert tortoise has led a sheltered existence. Developers have taken pains to keep the animal safe. It's been protected from meddlesome hikers by the threat of prison time....
Why is $200 Million Worth of Pipe Sitting in a North Dakota Field? 26 Aug 2013 | 04:08 pm
National Journal’s Amy Harder saw America’s energy boom firsthand on a trip to North Dakota. She followed Interior Secretary Sally Jewell down busy roads filled with trucks packed with equipment and s...
