But if they weren't licensed they couldn't provide any other benefits. He said things like trail rides on flat ground didn't need to be licensed.
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Companies and landowners that choose not to participate will probably face additional federal restrictions on land use. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both New Mexico Democrats, characterized the federal listing as unfortunate but did not challenge it.
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...the lesser prairie chicken on a list of threatened species, a move that could affect oil and gas drilling, wind farms and other activities in five central and southwestern states.The decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service is a step below "endangered" status and allows for more flexibility in how protections for the bird will be carried out under the Endangered Species Act.Dan Ashe, the agency's director, said he knows the decision...
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MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- The wandering wolf dubbed OR-7 has long exceeded his 15 minutes of fame.
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March 27--Cats look so cute batting at a piece of string, or pouncing on a ball of yarn.
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March 28--Idaho Gov. The Center for Biological Diversity said this month the dramatic population drop and the state's unwillingness to protect wolves in the Frank Church-River of No Return wilderness violates commitments Idaho made.
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...the decision by the Payette National Forest to close 70 percent of the forest to domestic sheep grazing to protect wild bighorn sheep. U.S. 9th Circuit Judge Wallace Tashima denied a motion by the Idaho Wool Growers Association to overturn the 2010 decision by Payette National Forest Supervisor Suzanne Rainville aimed at separating domestic and bighorn sheep. Tashima ruled the Forest Service had followed the preponderance of evidence that domestic sheep carry diseases to the wild sheep...
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Two state senators, Democrats Angela Giron of Pueblo and John Morse of Colorado Springs, were recalled over the gun laws.
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The caller's description led Sands to a location off of Rock Creek Road northwest of Weiser, where he found a mule deer buck shot and left to waste. A passing bird hunter tipped Sands off to another possible poached deer in the same general area. Following up on this information, Sands found a second mule deer buck, its skullcap removed and the carcass left to waste.
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The truck connects to a 10-inch diameter aluminum tube, which shoots the salmon across the pier into one of three white net pens suspended in an aluminum pontoon barge. Then the pens are opened on an outgoing tide, allowing the salmon to continue their downstream migration to the sea on their own. The National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plan to expand holding capacity at Livingston-Stone Hatchery, located at Shasta Dam, and bring in water chillers.
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