What’s the latest on efforts to reintroduce Grizzly bears back to the Lower 48?
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Grizzly bears, once a common sight in the Lower 48, were hunted and killed to near extinction over the century that followed colonialism.
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Public invited to provide input on the Meadow Run Watershed Restoration Project
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The National Park Service would like your input on a proposal to restore the Meadow Run watershed in the south district of Shenandoah National Park, northeast of Crimora.
11 crucial care tips for new ferret owners
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If you are a new ferret owner, then this article is what you need. Here is everything you need to know to take care of your new pet ferret.
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley News Roundup: Jan. 24
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Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.
Virginia Tech researcher’s findings support elegant solution to the Asian carp invasion: eat them
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How do you manage an invasive species of fish that in only a few decades has spread up and down the Mississippi River, out-competing native species and becoming more than 90 percent of the total biomass of some river systems?
Are hunters really the biggest conservationists in America?
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Hunters do play a large part in conservation efforts across the U.S. through their taxes, licenses and donations. In fact, the National Wildlife Refuge System itself was founded by a hunter: President Theodore Roosevelt. That being said, the mere act of hunting alone is not conservation.
W&L’s Staniar Gallery presents ‘Reconciliation’ by Leigh Ann Beavers
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Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery presents “Reconciliation,” a show by Leigh Ann Beavers, an art professor at W&L.
Charlottesville to begin annual deer population management program in February
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The City of Charlottesville will continue its work with a wildlife management specialist to implement a deer management program that will begin on Feb. 1.
Chesapeake’s health gets a D+ amid mixed progress, assessment finds
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The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has stagnated the last two years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation reports, with upticks in water quality offset by a worrisome decline in striped bass, the popular finfish also known regionally as rockfish.
Lawsuit: Stop Trump administration’s parting shot at national forests
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A lawsuit filed Friday seeks to reverse the Trump administration’s elimination of safeguards that have protected national forests from unneeded, ill-conceived and destructive logging, road building, and utility right-of-way projects.
