Saturday, June 4, 2011
Page 11A
RARE NORTHERN WHITE RHINO DIES AT 39
Prague - A 39-year-old northern white rhinoceros has died at a Czech zoo, further reducing the world's dwindling population of the endangered animal, an official said Friday. Nesari died in her sleep of old age May 26, Dvur Kralove zoo spokeswoman Jana Mysliveckova said. She called the death "an irretrievable loss." Mysliveckova said few of these rhinos are now left: two at a zoo in San Diego and 3 or 4 who are thought to live in Sudan but have not been seen since last year.
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Page 16A (headlines only)
RAW-VEGGIES SCARE SPREADS ACROSS EUROPE OVER E. COLI
by Kirsten Grieshaber (AP)
(Photo/Inset): Cucumbers are for sale at a market Friday in Madrid. Many people in Europe are swearing off lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes amid the E. Coli outbreak, even though the source hasn't been determined.
18 .... death toll in the E. Coli outbreak: 17 in Germany and one in Sweden
1,733 ... E. Coli cases in Germany, including 520 people suffering from a life-threatening complication that can cause kidney failure
4 ... cases in the U.S. linked to the European outbreak. All 4 victims were in northern Germany in May. Three of them - 2 women and a man - are hospitalized with a kidney complication.
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Page 2B
Cat, Squirrel Have Bubonic Plague
Boulder, CO - A pet cat and a dead squirrel have tested positive for the plague, the Daily Camera reports. The cat, which lived in the 2500 block of 6th St., tested positive for the bubonic plague after its owner took it into the Humane Society of Boulder Valley to be checked out by veterinarians, Boulder County health officials said. A dead squirrel found at the intersection of 8th and Maxwell also tested positive for the plague. The cat was successfully treated with antibiotics. Plague occurs naturally in Colorado and is an infectious disease spread by fleas to wild rodents and other small mammals.
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Page 2B (headlines only)
WAYWARD POOCH RETURNS (headlines only)
Come, Buster. Now Stay.
(Photo): Samantha Squires and her 4-year-old son, Darian, are reunited with lost dog Buster Brown at Denver International airport on Friday. The dog was found in California and flown home.
It will likely never be known how Buster Brown, a 7-year-old mutt that went missing in mid-November from his home near Boulder, ended up in Salinas, CA., and exactly what he was up to along the way...........
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Page 7B (headlines only)
DRILLING PACT AIMS TO PROTECT WILDLIFE
by Howard Pankratz
The Colorado Division of Wildlife and the BP America Production Co. have reached what is being described as an "innovative conservation agreement" to help mitigate the effects of natural-gas drilling on wildlife. Colorado wildlife officials said the primary goal of the plan is to offset habitat loss from BP's natural-gas development. Under the agreement, BP will buy private holdings suitable as wildlife habitat in exchange for drilling rights elsewhere..................
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Page 9A
Big Shelter Cats Come With Fat Discount
Hilliard, OH - A central Ohio animal shelter with an abundance of chubby cats is having a sale on its fattest felines, hoping a discount entices potential owners to take one home. The largest cat is a 6-year-old named Zebe, who weighs 23 pounds.
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Page 2B
Dead Pelican Tied To A Tree
Nederland - Nederland police Officer Darragh O'Nuallain has been on some interesting calls, but nothing quite like the report he took on Saturday afternoon of a pelican tied to the top of a large pine tree, the Daily Camera reports. "It's a large white pelican tied to the tree by its beak, with a copy of Watching Wildlife on its back," O'Nuallain told the Camera, describing the scene at 95 Wolf Tongue Court. The bird was found dead dangling from the top of a 35-oot ponderosa pine tree with the cover of the wildlife magazine strapped to its body. It appears the bird was already dead when it was tied to the tree.
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Page 2B
Rescuers Save 2-Day-Old Fawn From Rising Waters
A 2-day-old fawn was rescued from an island in the Cache La Poudre river on Friday after it became separated from its mother by the rising waters. The Larimer County Dive Rescue Team and Larimer County Emergency Services helped State Division of Wildlife officials with the rescue, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said. Dive team members swam to the island, which was being inundated with rising water from the river, and put the fawn in a recovery bag that was hoisted up to a nearby bicycle bridge, officials said. Wildlife officers "placed the fawn in the grass, close to where its mother was seen," according to the Sheriff's Office.
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Page 2B
Mesa County Lifting Horse Ban In Time For Show
Grand Junction - Another Colorado county is lifting a temporary horse ban at county facilities after an outbreak of equine herpes virus. The Mesa County Fairgrounds said Friday it will lift its horse ban Wednesday. That will allow next weekend's horse events, including team roping and barrel racing competitions, to go on. Mesa County imposed the ban May 18 in the wake of an outbreak throughout the West that apparently originated at a horse show in Ogden, Utah, in early May. Nine cass of the disease have been confirmed in Colorado, including some on private property in Mesa County. In southern Colorado, Fremont County last week lifted a quarantine that shut down a rodeo and horse shows after the county was assessed at low risk. The disease is highly contagious among horses.
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Page 3D - Post Editorial
A FISHY REVERSAL ON "WILD LANDS"
The Obama Administration Backtracking On A Policy To Protect Public Lands Smacks Of Pre-Election-Year Politics
The Obama administration's about-face on a policy that would allow temporary protection of pristine federally owned land in disappointing, particularly here in Colorado, where residents so clearly value wilderness. In a memo Wednesday, Interior Secy. Ken Salazar said his agency would not designate U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands as "wild lands," which would safeguard them while lawmakers mull whether to permanently protect them. The move ostensibly was due to Republican maneuvers to cut the program's funding. But surely there was more at work. In times of high gas prices, the policy could have been a political liability as Pres. Obama sought re-election. There is no question the wild lands policy was controversial - in part because it limited oil and gas development. Yet it does so on only a sliver of all BLM land. The problem with allowing mining and drilling on federal land that Congress might eventually protect is that once it is developed, it no longer will have the qualities that make it suitable for preservation. Once it's gone, it's gone for good. The wild lands policy has a long and twisted history of tit-for-tat moves. For decades, through Democratic and Republican presidential administrations, Interior studied and recommended to Congress federal lands for protection. That policy went off track in 2003 when Gale Norton, then the Interior secretary, and Mike Leavitt, then the governor of Utah, cut a deal removing 2.6 million acres of Utah land from consideration for protection. Along with making the land available for energy development, Norton declared the BLM would no longer study whether other lands it managed ought to be shielded from development and recommended for protection. This came to be known as the "no more wilderness" policy. In December, Salazar reversed this policy, a move that pleased environmentalists who had long -- and rightfully -- lobbied for its reinstatement. The decision also agitated Republicans and officials in Utah. Several groups sued the federal government in March, saying the reversal overstepped administration authority. We have to wonder whether the 180-degree turn has anything to do with wooing voters in important Western states during next year's presidential election. It would be easy for opponents to craft an ad, pointing sourly to $4-a-gallon gasoline, and accusing the Obama administration of obstructing energy development. Backtracking on the wild lands policy neutralizes that criticism, and gets rid of a pesky lawsuit. Unfortunately, it also leaves many beautiful places without protection. Salazar said federal officials will work with lawmakers to come up with recommendations for managing millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West. It's unfortunate that Salazar, who only just reinvigorated the wild lands policy, so quickly reversed course.
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