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Tribal governments manage significant wildlife habitat across the U.S., but they don't get the same tax revenue as states for conservation.

The Senate voted Tuesday to lift a 2016 ban on certain hunting practices — like trapping and aerial shooting — on national wildlife refuges there. Now the bill heads to President Trump to be signed.

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.

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.

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.

The man's bizarre smuggling attempt included many non-native species of snakes stuffed into his pants, according to China's customs authority.

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.

Hap Chambers is a volunteer with the US Fish and Wildlife Service at Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Program.

The story of Robert Kerrey's lead role in the 1969 Vietnam mission that resulted in the deaths of Vietnamese women and children was written for The New York Times Magazine by journalist Gregory Vistica. He also co-produced a report for 60 Minutes II on the same topic. Linda Wertheimer talks with Gregory Vistica. (4:30) The story can also be found on the New York Times Web site.

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.