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  • Happy Chambers
    Happy Chambers
    Hap Chambers is a volunteer with the US Fish and Wildlife Service at Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Program.
  • NPR Reporters On The Stories That Stuck In 2012
    Weekend Edition Saturday guest host Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's John Burnett, Robert Smith and Alix Spiegel about the most interesting stories they reported this year.
  • Patrick Megonigal, a wetlands ecologist for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, describes why forested wetlands and marshes are much more valuable than ponds.
    Interior Department Claims Wetlands Gain
    Interior Secretary Gale Norton announces that after decades of trying to stop the loss of wetlands, the country has finally succeeded. But Norton's wetlands report has been criticized as misleading; it counts manmade reservoirs and ponds created for storm runoff.
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  • This February 2022 photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows snakes in bags found hidden in a man's clothes at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry. On Tuesday, officials in China said a man was caught trying to smuggle more than 100 snakes into that country.
    A man is caught attempting to smuggle 100 live snakes into China in his pants
    The man's bizarre smuggling attempt included many non-native species of snakes stuffed into his pants, according to China's customs authority.
  • Ammon Bundy (left) approaches an FBI gate at the Burns Municipal Airport in Oregon on Friday. Bundy, the leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge to protest federal land policies, was among several people arrested Tuesday. Another member of the group was killed.
    Ammon Bundy And 7 Other Militants Arrested; 1 Killed Near Oregon Refuge
    Seven of the arrests took place in Oregon, and one man turned himself in to authorities in Arizona. At least 10 people reportedly are believed to be occupying the federal wildlife refuge.
  • Taiwan
    NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports on tension between longtime Taiwanese residents and those who came from mainland some 50 years ago. Rising Taiwanese nationalism has become an issue in an election that will give an indication of whether Taiwan is heading toward independence. (8:15) -b- 7. SEA LION SHOOTING -- Jennie Schmidt of member station KPLU reports on the impending shooting of recidivist sea lions in Seattle. It's the same group that returns year after year to shipping locks in Puget Sound where steelhead trout swim upriver to spawn. There aren't many trout left, and wildlife biologists, having failed to dissuade the hungry sea lions, now want to shoot them.
  • A black bear looks up at a line of picture-taking tourists near the popular Laurel Falls Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.
    Keeping Bears Wild — Or Trying — At National Parks
    There are about 1,600 black bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and nearly 11 million annual visitors. The park's wildlife biologists have the job of managing the interactions between them.
  • Reward offered for information on bald eagle shooting
    By Rose Krzton-PressonNew Concord, KY – The US Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $2,500 reward to find out who shot and killed a bald eagle in…
  • 11 Exotic Animals You Don't Need Permits for in Kentucky
    Dog and cat getting you down? Longing for something truly unique, unusual or exotic? Kentucky defines "exotic wildlife" as species which have never…
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