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Idaho confirms avian flu cases as Washington imposes new quarantine

By Laura Zuckerman January 21, 2015

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 […] Read more

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Providing Home Where Buffalo Roam Stirs Battles

By Laura Zuckerman February 14, 2011

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. On Jan. 11 government scientists drove 25 bison through ranchlands north of the park and into the wide-open valleys of the Gallatin National […] Read more

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Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Ravaged By Disease – for Oct. 11, 2010

By Laura Zuckerman October 11, 2010

Across the northern Rocky Mountains, bighorn sheep are dying by the hundreds from pneumonia and alarmed wildlife officials are hunting and killing the majestic animals to halt the spread of the disease. Since winter, nine disease outbreaks across five states in the West have claimed nearly 1,000 bighorns, prized as a game animal for the […] Read more

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Ruling halts hunting of wolves in Montana, Idaho – for Aug. 30, 2010

By Laura Zuckerman August 30, 2010

A U.S. judge in Montana on Aug. 5 ordered federal protection under the Endangered Species Act restored to the entire gray wolf population of the Northern Rocky Mountains. The ruling overturns a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision in April 2009 that lifted wolf protections in Montana and Idaho, opening those states to public hunting […] Read more

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Ruling Halts Hunting Of Wolves In Montana, Idaho – for Aug. 16, 2010

By Laura Zuckerman August 16, 2010

A U. S. judge in Montana on Aug. 5 ordered federal protection under the Endangered Species Act restored to the entire grey wolf population of the Northern Rocky Mountains. The ruling overturns a U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision in April 2009 that lifted wolf protections in Montana and Idaho, opening those states to […] Read more

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U.S. grains: South American supply issues wane

U.S. livestock: Live cattle climb ahead of USDA report

Feed weekly outlook: Offshore demand still lifting Prairie barley

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Idaho confirms avian flu cases as Washington imposes new quarantine

Providing Home Where Buffalo Roam Stirs Battles

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Ravaged By Disease – for Oct. 11, 2010

Ruling halts hunting of wolves in Montana, Idaho – for Aug. 30, 2010

Ruling Halts Hunting Of Wolves In Montana, Idaho – for Aug. 16, 2010

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