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U.S. Forest Service under fire for cutting old trees
The decision to cut more than 1,300 old-growth trees last summer in an Arizona forest has been criticized for breaking trust with the thinning project’s backers.  The rebuke comes at...
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Effort to restore threatened frog reaches milestone
[caption id="attachment_28699" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="A young Chiricahua leopard frog readies himself for release into a pool in the Tonto National Forest near Payson on Aug. 23. Biologists raised the threatened...
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Group initiates lawsuit against feds over jaguar permit
Macho B is gone, but his spirit may live on in a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Silver City, N.M.-based Center for Biological Diversity on July...
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Game and Fish eyes Northern Arizona shooting range site
The Arizona Game and Fish Department may finally choose a site for a shooting range in northern Arizona. The department’s commissioners will consider buying the 160-acre Foster Ranch in Coconino...
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Brewer signs 22 bills into law, vetoes one
State to enforce OHV compliance
The Arizona Game and Fish Department says its officers will step up efforts to ensure that people are complying with the state’s off-highway vehicle laws. The department says statistics show...
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Game and Fish: Low OHV registrations hurting enforcement, education programs
Low compliance with a law requiring off-highway vehicle owners to purchase a $25 annual decal is hampering Arizona’s efforts to educate riders and protect areas from illegal use, state officials...
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Arizona group sues Game and Fish, saying agency had no permit to trap jaguar
An Arizona-based environmental group filed suit against the Arizona Game and Fish Department in U.S. District Court in Tucson on Sept. 24, claiming the agency lacked a necessary permit to...
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Arizona ends ban on lion hunting in Kofa refuge
TUCSON – The Arizona Game and Fish Department has ended a moratorium on shooting lions in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge north of Yuma. The agency says the mountain lion...
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From science to scents, animal trackers get creative
Biologists have long sought ways to pull back the curtain on wildlife. Over the past century, they have gone from banding birds to tracking whales with satellites. But wildlife advocates...
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Environmental group plans to sue over jaguar capture
A Southwest environmental group put the Arizona Game and Fish Department on notice it intends to file a lawsuit over a jaguar capture that might have contributed to the animal’s...
