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EDITORIAL: Update Endangered Species Act for minnow and ABQ water users

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...flow per a 2003 plan developed after similar litigation, and the minnow hasn't spawned in three years. Instead, what's spawning is another protracted legal battle to save a species that under current environmental conditions might not be saveable. A group of House Republicans is calling for an overhaul of the Endangered Species Act, with states getting more authority over the imperiled plants and animals and litigation from wildlife advocates limited. Forty years after the act...
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Alabama Senate bans use of drones to harass hunters fishers

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...animal should it escape. "Wildlife watchers outnumber wildlife killers five to one -- and if even a fraction of these kind of people use Air Angels, they'll go a long way toward exposing hunters' dirty secrets," the post read. Illinois already has banned the use of drones for the purpose. In a statement to The Verge, PETA maintained that it is monitoring hunters, not attempting to harass or interfere with them. Bedford said he did not know of any incidents in Alabama as...
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More than 1,800 Copies of “The Real Wolf” Sold in First Week

By Wolves
More than 1,800 Copies of "The Real Wolf" Sold in First Week BOZEMAN, MONTANA - After many years of research, hundreds of face-to-face and telephone interviews and thousands upon thousands of miles of travel, Texas attorney and Montana landowner Ted Lyon came to the conclusion that "something had to be done about the wolves in North America. They had to be managed by people who truly understood what was going on in the field, and those people needed to be respected and supported." That "something" was Lyon's first book, "The Real Wolf - The Science, Politics and Economics of Co-Existing with Wolves in Modern Times", which just sold more than 1,800 copies in its first week of distribution in the…
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Pope & Young Issues Policy on UAV/Drone Assisted Bowhunting

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Pope & Young Issues Policy on UAV/Drone Assisted Bowhunting The Pope & Young Club, a non-profit North American Conservation and bowhunting organization announces policy on UAV/Drone assisted bowhunting. POSITION STATEMENT: DRONES The core values of the Pope and Young Club revolve around the principles of high standards of conduct and ethics in our bowhunting lifestyle. The Club believes that an ethical code is necessary for all responsible bowhunters and is the key to protecting bowhunting's future in our society. The concept of fair chase is a component of an ethical code. Simply defined, fair chase is the ethical, sportsmanlike and lawful pursuit of free-ranging wild game animals in a manner which does not give the bowhunter an improper or unfair…
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