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Catch A Brown Trout In The Colorado River, Pocket $25

When was the last time you were paid for fishing? In a bid to reduce the numbers of non-native brown trout in the Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam, the National Park Service and Arizona Game and Fish Department will pay you $25 for each brown trout over six inches you catch and keep.

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October 30th, 2020

Gray Wolf Removed From Endangered Species List, Spurring Legal Challenges

Gray wolves in the lower 48 states were removed from Endangered Species Act protections Thursday, a move that was harshly criticized and drew promises of legal challenges.

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October 29th, 2020

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Chickasaw National Recreation Area Building New Bison Enclosure

Work on a new enclosure for bison at Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma is getting under way this month, with fencing to be completed in the spring.

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October 25th, 2020

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Trumpeter Swan Cygnets Released At Yellowstone To Help Boost Population

Though trumpeter swans have never been listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, there long have been concerns about their population numbers. In a bid to boost those numbers, eight young trumpeter swans were recently set free at Alum Creek in Yellowstone National Park's Hayden Valley.

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October 16th, 2020

Declines In Whitebark Pine Could Prompt Declines Of Clark's Nutcracker In Parks

Clark's Nutcrackers are ubiquitous to many Western national parks. When you set up camp in the backcountry they are quick to arrive, and they're not shy about begging for a treat or even stealing one. But they could vanish from some of those park settings if whitebark pines vanish, according to new research. And without the birds, new stands of whitebark pine might never get planted.

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October 14th, 2020

USFWS Denial Of Endangered Species Act Protection For Wolverines Prompting Lawsuit

A decision Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to deny wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act prompted a coalition of groups to announce plans to sue the agency of that decision.

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October 8th, 2020

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"Functional Redundancy" Can Make National Parks Ecologically Stronger

There are places in nature where the loss of a species or two won’t send shudders through the ecosystem or even cripple it. In the tropics of Central America, for instance, new research shows that having robust diversity among mammalian species will allow for the loss of a good handful or two of species without upsetting an ecosystem.

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October 8th, 2020

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747, A Bear Aptly Named After A Jetliner, Is Katmai National Park's Fat Bear 2020

Comparing someone to a wide-body jetliner that could carry 500 passengers is not typically construed as a compliment, but when it comes to a brown bear putting on the pounds for winter, well, "747" suits the winner of Katmai National Park's Fat Bear 2020 contest.

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October 7th, 2020

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Arizona Wildlife Authorities Reach Agreement To Cull Bison At Grand Canyon National Park

An agreement has been reached to allow the Arizona Game and Fish Commission to work with the National Park Service to cull the number of bison on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.

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October 4th, 2020

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A Modern-Day Smokey Bear Story, Featuring A Mountain Lion Cub

In a twist on the Smokey Bear story, an orphaned mountain lion cub, thought to be less than two months old, was rescued from the flames of the Zogg Fire in California by a firefighter and sent to the Oakland Zoo for veterinary care of its burns.

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October 1st, 2020

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