USDA – Sto launch rabies-baiting operation in area Aug. 21 – Sept. 1

The Columbiana County Health Department reported Tuesday that the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services, will distribute Oral Rabies Vaccine baits in the county Aug. 21 through Sept. 1. ORV baits will be distributed in eastern Ohio counties along with areas on the corridor of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia.

How Western Industrial Interests Are Relying on Trump to Eviscerate…

In the West, legal decisions to protect animals instead of allowing for the unregulated exploitation of the natural world continue to outrage already profitable industries. Never mind that the protection of these species is also tremendously profitable for other groups, bringing a ton of money into states such as Oregon and Idaho.

No sanctions for skydiving center in tandem jump deaths, FAA says

The Federal Aviation Administration says it cannot sanction a skydiving center in Central California for the 2016 deaths of two men killed in a tandem jump. The Sacramento Bee reports the FAA announced Monday that under federal regulations it will not take action against the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center in the deaths of 25-year-old Yong Kwon, of South Korea, and 18-year-old Tyler Nicholas, of Los Banos.

Immigration fight cripples Alaska fishing as foreign help vanishes

Not many Americans want to spend the summer processing seafood in Alaska for 16 hours a day, seven days a week, earning $10 an hour straight time and $15 an hour overtime. But the prospect of working 112 hours and grossing about $1,400 a week - in a good fishing year - appeals to workers from countries where the pay for unskilled labor is a good deal lower than $10 an hour.

Outdoors notebook: Recreational fishermen a little less than 300,000…

The latest count from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries - through its LA Creel surveys - shows Louisiana's recreational fishermen have taken 709,595 pounds of red snapper through July 16. That number is near 300,000 pounds shy of the self-imposed state quota of 1.04 million pounds allotted for the 39-day season, which continues to run Fridays through Sundays. This latest number came after an estimate of 655,603 pounds hauled in through July and represents the increased participation for recreational anglers in this season, which followed the shortest-ever June 1-3 season announced earlier this year by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council through the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Ship sets record for earliest crossing of Northwest Passage

Victor Gronmyr looks out over the ice covering the Victoria Strait as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica traverses the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Ar... . Second officer Juha Tuomi looks out from Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails into floating sea ice on the Victoria Strait while traversing the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Friday, July 21, 2017.... .

The Latest: Icebreaker sets record for NW Passage transit

After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers , the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage. The once-forbidding route through the Arctic, linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due to climate change.

Exclusive: The Long March

"Women gather to call NRA racist, accuse them of inciting violence against minorities," a BizPac Review headline advised its conservative readership. The article demonstrated that not one protester could cite a single instance of racism or one call for violence, but since when does a lynch mob need evidence to trigger blind fury? Producing such evidence was not a requirement for thousands of "mainstream" articles promoting and sympathizing with the hundreds of anti-armed citizen fanatics at the 17-mile "Women's March" from National Rifle Association headquarters in Fairfax, Va., to the Department of Justice in D.C. in July.

Federal spending proposal calls for review of wolf genetics

In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a Mexican gray wolf leaves cover at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, N.M. The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, lifted a preliminary injunction that had prevented the Fish and Wildlife Service from releasing more Mexican gray wolves. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Environmentalists are concerned that a proposed spending plan for the U.S. Interior Department calls for a study to determine whether Mexican gray wolves are a genetically distinct subspecies.