Word: elk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court, so Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and location subject to haggling) to Pacific Lumber. If Hurwitz is satisfied, he passes title to Headwaters, the 425-acre Elk Head grove and a logged-over moonscape between, totaling 7,500 acres. If not, PL's fallers start their chainsaws...
...watershed. When told that the outside world views their forests as empty, four Udege hunters laugh uproariously. They argue that too many people are already using the forest. A study shows that only half the watershed's nearly 5,000 sq. mi. of forest produces enough sable, deer and elk to support hunters. And a single tribal hunter must roam a territory as large as 75 sq. mi.--about the size of the Caribbean island of Aruba--to trap enough fur and hunt enough meat to live on. That allowance is calculated to provide wildlife the space and opportunity...
...like conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But in early April, three widely separated pens were opened. The radio-collared wolves, three distinct packs trapped in Alberta, Canada, stayed put for nearly a week. Then at last they began to range. One of the packs killed an elk. Biologists uncrossed their fingers...
...continual hunting of the largest, fittest specimens might, some experts say, eventually weaken their respective common gene pools. At the very least, the criminals are denying a glimpse of the most magnificent specimens to the parks' millions of legal visitors. Longtime Yellowstone ranger Gerald Mernin, who has seen elk carcasses left behind by poachers interested in only their antlers, notes sadly that "people have always hunted in the backcountry. But it takes a different person to do this. This is America's heritage, and they're stealing...
...make the federal laws tougher," she says, "and the states are trying to coordinate their laws." Rangers around the country were heartened by the conviction of Don Lewis, a nationally known crossbow hunter, who had been brazen enough to have himself videotaped attacking a herd of elk -- smack in the middle of Yellowstone. Lewis pleaded guilty, was fined $15,000 and served 30 days of an 18-month prison sentence...