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US Forest Service lab dedication Saturday to be a festive event

...facility."The Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center is a collaboration between the university, the Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the City and Borough of Juneau for research on temperate rainforests.UAS Chancellor John...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-16/us-forest-service-lab-dedication-saturd
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Orphaned polar bear cub lands at NY zoo

...coveralls, rode it back into Point Lay and then got hold of U.S. Fish and Wildlife," said Patrick Lampi, executive director...permanent resident, but the decision will be up to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-16/orphaned-polar-bear-cub-lands-ny-zoo
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Group to sue to force polar bear recovery plan

...threatened polar bears.The Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday gave 60-day notice it also will sue to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to complete a required five-year status review of the bears found along the northern coast of...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-16/group-sue-force-polar-bear-recovery-pla
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Polar bear cub prepares for new home in New York

...subsistence purposes by Alaska Natives, but killing a mother with cubs is not legal under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regional redirector Geoff Haskett said officials are still investigating.The tiny cub, estimated...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-14/polar-bear-cub-prepares-new-home-new-yo
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Kenai wildlife refuge revises fire management plan

...we would do in and around the refuge lands near those communities," Doug Newbould, fire management officer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, told the Peninsula Clarion.The report examines the effect forest fires have on the ecosystem...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-14/kenai-wildlife-refuge-revises-fire-mana
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Lawmakers push back on 'federal overreach'

...square miles as habitat for threatened polar bears. A judge earlier this year threw out the plan and sent it back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to correct "substantive and procedural deficiencies."Whether the battle against encroachment...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-28/lawmakers-push-back-federal-overreach
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Sitka parks manager wins landscape award

...ceremony on May 13 are former Gov. Tony Knowles, for his work on the Tony Knowles urban trail; Neil Stichert from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for wildlife restoration projects; and the University of Alaska Anchorage for experimental tree...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-28/sitka-parks-manager-wins-landscape-awar
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Murkowski pushes for Izembek road

...Secretary Sally Jewell has been invited in August but no dates have been confirmed.Murkowski is hoping to reverse a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision rejecting a road."I hope you will listen not only with your ears but with your heart...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-08/murkowski-pushes-izembek-road
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Alaska ferries lose nature experts to budget cuts

...are hired and paid by the U.S. Forest Service or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, make about $22,000 a season...Tustumena doesn't have a naturalist on board, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official Larry Bell.It's a loss...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-29/alaska-ferries-lose-nature-experts-budg
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Alaska state senator proposes bounty on sea otters

...if the bill were to pass, it would be unenforceable under the federal law, said Bruce Woods, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. States cannot enforce laws or regulations related to the taking of any marine mammal under the...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-02-21/alaska-state-senator-proposes-bounty-se
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