LAS VEGAS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A plan to combine four wildlife refuges in Nevada into a single Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex is close to final approval, U.S. officials said.
OTTAWA, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Canada's Conservative government has been lobbying Washington not to drill for oil in Alaska's pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, documents indicate.
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. government will spend $4 million to expand the Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota, officials said Thursday.
ALAMOSA, Colo., March 9 (UPI) -- Thousands of Sandhill Cranes have converged on Colorado's Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge for a stopover before they head north.
TITUSVILLE, Fla., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Florida environmentalists are angry about a NASA plan to build a private launch pad in a wildlife refuge.
WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production site in Colorado has been named a National Wildlife Refuge.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 2 (UPI) -- Wet weather has helped crews battling some Alaska wildfires but there was not enough rain to keep fire from edging into the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
MEDINA, N.D., July 13 (UPI) -- Federal wildlife officials suspect disease killed thousands of chicks, leading to a second mass exodus of American white pelicans from a North Dakota refuge.
UNCERTAIN, Texas, May 5 (UPI) -- Federal officials Wednesday signed papers to convert an old Army ammunition plant site into a wildlife refuge in the marshlands of northeast Texas. About 100 people attended the ceremony in which Army official signed over 5,032 acres from the old Longhor
CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Guided by ultralight aircraft, a small flock of endangered whooping cranes arrived at the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in central Florida Monday afte
