Yellowstone Sanctuary, home to bears, cougar, Ted Turner's magpie, may close

Mountain lion peers out from lair.

MT’s only wildlife sanctuary may close because it’s not meeting federal regulations, but it won’t say which ones.

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Tell the feds you want a Chicagoland NWR

Tell the FWS that Chicago and Milwaukee would like Hackmatack, a new wildlife refuge they could drive to. You might see whooping cranes, river otter, cougars, blandings turtles and all kinds of birds there. They take comments until April 27 and are set to decide this fall.

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Men's mags duel over OH zoo gone wild

GQ and Esquire face off over the exotic predator release in OH. Esquire goes all action adventure. GQ tries to figure out how lion, tigers and bears were unleashed on suburbia.

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NY wants to bring bobcat hunting close to NYC

NY wants to double the number of bobcats hunted by expanding when and where they can be shot or trapped–all the way the suburbs of New York City. The new hunting area will include the burbs around Cold Spring and Woodbury Commons outlet mall.

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Stuffed animals fools my dogs, Hampshire police

Police in Hampshire, UK, responded to reports of a white tiger in a field by sending in armored officers and a helicopter, only to find out it was a toy. My beagles are looking smarter.

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AZFGD late night news dump: we still didn't have anything to do with trapping jaguar Macho B

Macho B Jaguar pre-release / AZFGD

Charges were dropped against the whistleblower in the improper trapping of the last American jaguar, Macho B, which lead to his 2009 death. AZFGD proclaims its innocence. Again. Though supposed employee present never found.

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Big Cats Stuck on Tall Things, Part II: Bobcat on giant cactus

Cactus cat

An Arizona bobcat climbed a 45-foot suguaro cactus to escape a mountain lion, then stayed perched for 6 hours before jumping down.

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Big cats stuck on tall things

cougar on a telephone pole

An AZ bobcat clawed up a 45-foot suguaro cactus to escape a mountain lion. He escaped, amazed locals and became an internet sensations.

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Wildlife Service begs Congress to limit funds for endangered species

Florida Panther

At the rate the USFWS is going, it will 50 years to process endangered species listing petitions. So they asked Congress to limit funds to spurn conservationists

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Tensleep: saved for the plants, but the elk like it, too

The Nature Conservancy bought the Girl Scouts’ biggest camp to research plants, but plenty of elk, deer, pronghorn, weasels and birds have moved in. Mountain lion and spotted bat are here, but tough to see.

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