Word: arizona
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...Angeles at Arizona...
Steve Torres, an Arizona naturalist and the author of the book Mountain Lion Alert, has formulated some advice. Do not run from a lion--they recognize prey by flight. Yell and scream instead. Eye contact, too, establishes a threat to the cougar, or you may wave it away. Raise your arms to make yourself seem bigger than you actually are. If in a group, band together and pick up the children. If you are with pets, forget about them. Defend your children. And if the lion attacks, fight back, brandishing a threatening object--knife, branch, stick...
...course, not every lion sighting is for real. Sometimes people report golden retrievers, big house cats and other similar-size animals as cougars. But Paul Beier, a biologist at Northern Arizona University, believes the recent confrontations between lions and man aren't just flukes. "The attacks aren't likely to go down," he says. "We're not making more land...
Murphy, who is not related to football coach Tim L. Murphy, replaces Mike Chasson, who left Harvard for a head coaching position at Arizona State University...
...want to take any chances. In Alaska spruce forests that served as traditional hunting grounds have been clear-cut by Tlingit loggers. Florida's Miccosukee Indians are attempting to build housing within Everglades National Park, while Utah's Goshute are actively seeking a nuclear-waste dump. And last year Arizona's White Mountain Apaches, protecting their logging and cattle interests, declared that federal agents would be forbidden to enforce the Endangered Species Act on tribal land. Says Rosita Worl, a Tlingit anthropologist: "There has never been more tension between the need for resources and our reverence for nature...