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Poll shows support for outdoors-arts amendment
The Associated Press - MINNEAPOLIS
A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll finds that most Minnesotans favor a constitutional amendment to provide more money for the outdoors, the environment and the arts
Fifty-nine percent of the respondents say they plan to vote for the amendment, and 32 percent say they'll vote no.
But the poll also shows that 40 percent of those surveyed acknowledge they have heard nothing about the details of the proposal, which would authorize a statewide three-eighths of one percent sales-tax increase.
The survey of 1,084 likely voters conducted was over a three-day period ending last Thursday. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
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Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com |
ENDANGERED SPECIES: Judge tosses decision that delisted Great Lakes wolves (Monday, September 29, 2008)
Allison Winter, E&ENews PM reporter
The Fish and Wildlife Service must revisit its decision that removed Great Lakes gray wolves from the endangered species list, a federal judge ruled today.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decision vacates the service's 2007 delisting decision. Judge Paul Friedman said the agency has not properly explained how its decision to break out the robust group of Great Lakes wolves from other wolf populations complies with policy objectives of the Endangered Species Act.
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LANDMARK FISH HABITAT BILL INTRODUCED IN U.S. SENATE
Legislation offers grassroots, tangible solutions to restore our nation’s waterways
(WASHINGTON, DC) – On Wednesday September 24, 2008 Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Christopher Bond (R-MO), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), and George Voinovich (R-OH), introduced the National Fish Habitat Conservation Act of 2008, a comprehensive strategy to allocate conservation dollars for effective restoration of our national waterways.
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Atrazine found in northern Minn. lakes
The Associated Press - Monday, September 22, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS
A study finds the weed-killer atrazine is showing up in lakes in northern Minnesota, far away from farms.
Scientists believe the chemical, used mainly to control weeds in cornfields, is falling out of the sky.
In a statewide study of pesticides in Minnesota lakes, government scientists discovered small amounts of atrazine in nine out of 10 lakes sampled - including some in or near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Steven Heiskary, a research scientist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, says the concentrations are "very low."
Six of the 46 lakes containing atrazine are in or near the BWCA, including two trout lakes in St. Louis and Cook counties.
The only urban lake tested, Nokomis in Minneapolis, also had trace amounts of atrazine.
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Hunter Green
The People Behind a Conservation Success Story
By Steve Sanetti
Monday, September 15, 2008; Page A19
Today's green movement uses certain buzzwords -- organic, locavore, renewable -- to the wry amusement of 15 million to 20 million of us who've actually lived the eco-friendly lifestyle that these words describe.
We are hunters.
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Former NDGFD director has died
By BRIAN GEHRING
Bismarck Tribune
North Dakota lost a true friend Tuesday.
Dean Hildebrand, former director of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, died of cancer in Rochester, Minn.
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Michigan's First Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Detected at Kent County Deer Breeding Facility
LANSING - The Michigan departments of Agriculture (MDA) and Natural Resources (DNR) today confirmed the state's first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a three-year old white-tailed deer from a privately owned cervid (POC) facility in Kent County.
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Environmental groups prevail in effort to ward off invasive species
By DAN EGAN
degan@journalsentinel.com
Posted: July 23, 2008
The fight to keep invasive species out of the Great Lakes picked up some steam Wednesday.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a coalition of environment groups, backed by some Great Lakes states, that sued the federal government to begin regulating ballast water like any other pollutant under the Clean Water Act.
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Fish Virus Feeds Fears It Will Spread to Mississippi River
By Kari LydersenWashington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 19, 2008; Page A02
CHICAGO -- A deadly fish virus has been found for the first time in southern Lake Michigan and an inland Ohio reservoir, spurring fears of major fish kills and the virus's possible migration to the Mississippi River.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources invoked emergency fishing regulations June 30 to stop the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), often described as "fish Ebola," which was found in round gobies and rock bass tested at a marina near the Wisconsin border in early June.
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Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) governmental members include the fish and wildlife agencies of the states, provinces, and federal governments of the U.S. and Canada. All 50 states are members.
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Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) is an organization whose members are the state agencies with primary responsibility for management and protection of the fish and wildlife resources in 16 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. |
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Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, founded in 1922, is a quasi-governmental organization of public agencies charged with the protection and management of fish and wildlife resources in the western part of the United States and Canada. Currently there are 23 members. The Association has been a key organization in the promotion of the principles of sound resource management and the strengthening of federal, state and private cooperation in protecting and managing fish and wildlife and their habitats in the public interest.
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