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Interior Department Moving To Open More Public Lands To Hunting, Fishing

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials, at the direction of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, are moving to open seven of their refuges to hunting and fishing, a move spurring concern that National Park System units could be ordered to move in the same direction.

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August 11th, 2019

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Hazing Attempt Leads To Black Bear Death At Glacier National Park

An attempt to haze a black bear out of the Many Glacier Campground area at Glacier National Park ended with the bear's death when a rubber bullet intended to send the bear running instead pierced its abdomen, according to park staff.

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August 6th, 2019

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Big Bend National Park Staff Working To Protect Bighorn Sheep From Invasive Barbary Sheep

Airborne sharpshooters will take to the skies over Big Bend National Park on Sunday in a bid to reduce the numbers of non-native Barbary sheep in the park so they don't jeopardize the small numbers of native Desert Bighorn sheep.

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August 6th, 2019

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Cape Lookout, Cape Hatteras National Seashores Enjoying Banner Sea Turtle Nesting Results

Sea turtles have been nesting in high numbers at Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras national seashores this summer, and the number of hatchlings has been soaring in both parks.

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August 5th, 2019

Yellowstone Elk Know How To Avoid Wolves And Mountain Lions

Viewed as prey by both wolves and mountain lions, elk in Yellowstone National Park have figured out how best to avoid those predators, according to a new study.

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August 4th, 2019

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Fish And Wildlife Service Officially Returns Yellowstone Grizzlies To Threatened Status

Paperwork sometimes can take awhile. To that point, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just this week completed work to relist grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, a listing a federal judge called for last September.

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August 2nd, 2019

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Redwood Creek Restoration To Resume At Muir Woods National Monument

Efforts to help improve Coho salmon habitat at Muir Woods National Monument in California are scheduled to begin in August, with crews removing previously placed boulders in Redwood Creek and revegetating the creek with native plants.

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July 31st, 2019

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Teen Gored By Bison At Theodore Roosevelt National Park

A teenager from Colorado was gored in the thigh and tossed into the air at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota by a bull bison that just moments earlier had been fighting with another bull.

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July 29th, 2019

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Public Comment Period Reopens On Possible Grizzly Recovery Program For North Cascades

Whether grizzly bears should be helped to move into the North Cascades is a question the general public is being asked to comment on.

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July 26th, 2019

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Program To Relocate Mountain Goats From Olympic National Park Pauses

July operations to relocate mountain goats out of Olympic National Park succeeded in moving 76 of the animals, though another 13 either died or were killed in the process.

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July 25th, 2019

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