Recent Conservation Articles page 9

Star-Banner - FORT MCCOY - Florida grade-school children are learning the value of water conservation at an early age. Fort McCoy Middle School incorporates water management into science classes and the fifth-grade recently presented "Splash Into Science Night ...

Chicago Tribune - Sonny Perdue seems to be pinning his hopes on a two-pronged approach: urging water conservation and reducing water flowing out of federally controlled lakes. Perdue's office on Friday asked a Florida federal judge to force the Army Corps of ...

Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - In a move being cheered by recreational anglers, President Bush will announce today new conservation goals for a popular Chesapeake Bay fish that include stricter limits on commercial hauls of rockfish but greater access for outdoor ...

News.com.au - She is coping well, but has many lessons to learn about surviving in the wild, according to Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Program project director Peter Pratje, of the Frankfurt Zoological Society. He said her first day went "amazingly well''. "I ...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (October 20, 2007) — A black bear caught by a Department of Environmental Conservation trap late Thursday was getting more comfortable with humans, worrying state officials. The bear got about four feet from an elderly man in the Hilton area, and ...

New York Times - And although energy conservation and efficiency, as well as renewable energy, will play larger roles in the future, they are not enough to meet the nation’s growing appetite for electricity, Mr. Sergel said. The collaboration of former strangers ...

Miami Herald - My $3.50 charge at the American International Rattlesnake Museum, for instance, which probably bought half the reptilian residents lunch. The conservation center claims to display the world's largest living collection of different snake species. That ...

San Francisco Gate - (10-18) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- Senate Democrats announced a breakthrough in a long-stalled farm bill Wednesday that would provide billions of dollars for California fruit and vegetable marketing, farm conservation and food stamps - but would ...

Globe and Mail - The mental image of pollution that most people carry around in their heads [is] a large spewing smokestack,” said Rick Smith, director of Environmental Defence, a conservation group. “Increasingly, dangerous pollution comes from smaller, more ...

BusinessWeek - We believe we have a real opportunity to make significant strides in improving energy conservation and fuel economy so as to reduce our dependence on foreign oil ... in a sensible way that would support American manufacturing and American workers ...