Salmon, Idaho | Reuters –– Idaho officials said avian flu was confirmed in backyard chickens in the southwest of the state on Wednesday as Washington state quarantined poultry and eggs in areas where the virus was detected in chickens, geese and ducks. The highly pathogenic H5N2 strain of avian flu was first found in Pacific
Idaho confirms avian flu cases as Washington imposes new quarantine
Wyoming wolves to lose Endangered Species Act protection
Grey wolves in Wyoming, the last still federally protected in the northern Rockies, will lose endangered species status at the end of September, opening them to unregulated killing in most of the state, the U.S. government said Aug. 31. The planned delisting of Wyoming’s estimated 350 wolves caps a steady progression of diminishing federal safeguards
Providing Home Where Buffalo Roam Stirs Battles
For the first time in more than a century, wild buffalo from the nation’s last purebred herd will be permitted to roam free in Montana outside the bounds of Yellowstone National Park. Government scientists plan on Wednesday to drive 25 buffalo, or bison, through ranchlands north of the park and into the wide-open valleys of
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