People come first." In the wake of the attack, the agency plans to hire more wildlife contractors to trap and relocate bears or catch and kill them. Are you willing to have a bearproof garbage can? Our challenge is to stay in step." Florida's struggle with bears is not unique, said John Beecham, a research biologist who specializes in human-bear conflicts.
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The area may be worthy of the national monument pedestal, but the devil is in the details. Management plans are made after a monument is designated, and the process takes years. He said he fears snowmobilers will be excluded from monument planning efforts. Motorized use rules also affect hunters.
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It was towing a trailer that appeared to be a large metal cage on wheels. And, often, other bears take their place. The black bear, Florida's largest native land mammal, was removed from the state's threatened-species list last year. Male black bears typically have a home range of 60 square miles, officials said. This is a breaking news story.
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At that point I knew there was something like a bear," he said.
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If lawmakers approved the petition, it would automatically become law. Those proposals would repeal the two laws that gave the green light to the hunt of 43 wolves in the Upper Peninsula, which began on Nov. 15 and ends Dec. 31.
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...a recommendation for just over 80,000 acres of recommended wilderness in the Thompson-Seton, Tuchuck, and Mt. Hefty areas at the north end of the Whitefish Range, Jamison said. That recommendation closely resembles what the Flathead Forest included in a draft forest plan that had to be abandoned because of litigation in 2006. But it still represents compromise, because there have been proposals in the past for more than 200,000 acres of recommended wilderness in the North Fork, Jamison...
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The most commonly found bird species were red-eyed vireo and golden-crowned kinglet, while Eastern red bat and hoary bat accounted for the majority of the bat fatalities found. The number of bird and bat fatalities peaked in the fall.
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They also urged them to teach children to recognize and stay away from predators such as coyotes, foxes and bobcats. Florida Wildlife Commission Lt.
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...said Bernhardt, 30, a Grand Forks Realtor. "It's always something scheduled in at the same time of year." This year, though, Bernhardt, of Grand Forks, didn't draw a deer tag. In response to declining deer populations, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department this fall offered only 59,500 licenses for the deer gun season, the lowest number in 30 years. That puts Bernhardt in the same position as some 44,000 other North Dakota residents who didn't draw licenses in the deer...
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He wanted his 7-year-old son to experience a Fourth of July on the beach, but for the seventh year in a row, nesting plovers closed off all the trails heading south from Nauset. Because Massachusetts has its own Endangered Species Act, towns also need state conservation and management permits. Much like the proposal in Winthrop, the town felt the rebuilding would help create new plover habitat as erosion washed the dunes away over time.
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