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...long lifted spirits at home, and now is bringing that touch of hearth to institutional settings. In U.S. prisons, the Birdman of Alcatraz has numerous descendants. In Lima, Ohio, at a facility for mentally ill inmates, part of the courtyard resembles a barnyard. Sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits -- even deer -- roam around. "We're finding the prisoners who have pets are less violent," says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from a neurological disorder...
...going broke trying to raise wheat or cattle. If their lands were combined into a cooperative and replanted with native grasses, says Scott, the area could support wild animals on a scale ; unseen since Lewis and Clark came through in 1805. Tourists would flock in to watch the deer and the antelope play, hunters to stalk elk and perhaps 75,000 bison. Scott presented his plan in Missoula last month to the nonprofit Institute of the Rockies and heard nary a discouraging word. The institute is raising funds for a study...
...statuesque white-tailed buck grazes along a roadside in rural Virginia. Passing hunters slow their cars, aim their high-powered rifles out the window and fire -- then fire again when the deer neither falls nor flees. Three police cruisers suddenly surround the cars, and the hapless hunters discover they are the targets of a sting dubbed Bambiscam...
...response to complaints that poachers were illegally shooting deer from their cars, Virginia game officials purchased a stuffed buck, named him Sucker and placed him near a roadside. The four-day sting operation led to eleven convictions on 23 separate charges. Sucker has proved such an attractive target that he has been taken to a taxidermist to have his bullet holes restuffed. Said Game Warden Jim Bankston: "That's one thing we learned about illegal hunters. Most of them are pretty good shots...
Part of the federally received funds will be used to construct a tunnel 300 feet below the Harbor through which sewage can be channeled to Deer Island, where a new plant will remove 90 percent of the impurities from the water. Presently, most sewage goes to Nut Island where only 50 percent of the impurities are removed, Di Natale said...