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A member of the National Guard stationed in Iraq has been chronicling the birds and other forms of wildlife he has observed there for almost a year. He talks about his latest sightings. We last spoke with Jon in October. He's getting ready to leave Iraq soon, and so it seemed the perfect excuse to ask him about his latest sightings.

Republican senators fall well short of the votes needed to keep alive a proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska. Thursday's vote all but assures that ANWR oil exploration won't be a part of the energy bill sent to President Bush. View a map of the area and a photo gallery of some wild ANWR inhabitants.

It has been 10 years since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced the Mexican gray wolf into the mountains of southern Arizona and New Mexico. The agency is re-evaluating the policy, which is under attack from all sides.

Police say the bear in Missoula County opened an unlocked door, deadbolted the door behind him and then ripped a room apart. Fish and Wildlife officials finally tranquilized the bear.

Regarding new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rules, we said there's a ban on the sale of the reticulated python and 3 other snake species. The rules ban importation and interstate sales and transport.

A narrow Senate vote on a budget resolution makes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge potentially vulnerable to oil drilling. The measure could be rescinded later in the budget process, but Wednesday's 51-49 vote is a defeat for those who have sought to protect the Alaskan preserve from oil exploration.

Firefighters got a strange call over the weekend from the Alaska Wildlife Troopers.A 500-pound moose was stuck in a basement in the town of Soldotna.

The government's latest unemployment report showed the economy still struggling to bounce back from a weak report in December. Employers in January added 113,000 to payrolls, far less than expected. The unemployment rate did notch down to 6.6 percent.

New reports from the Pew Hispanic Center conclude that low-income Latino students are the most segregated, ill-served group in the country's public high schools. The reports detail high school conditions for Hispanic students in the United States.

The latest intelligence report on Iran seems to be an obstacle to policies of President Bush. The report's main conclusion that Iran ceased a nuclear weapons program in 2003 may raise barriers to the possibility of using military force against Iran and questions economic sanctions.