(The Center Square) – A bill that would have outlawed transactions involving glow-in-the-dark rabbits, "unicorns" and other genetically engineered animals stalled in the California Legislature this year despite bipartisan support.

This summer, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is once again asking residents to look out for one of Maine’s most elusive native species: the rusty patched bumble bee.  It’s one of two native species of bumble bee that hasn’t been seen in the state in years. It’s considered a rare species of […]

FRANKFORT — Regulations to expand bobcat hunting, including at night with thermal equipment, moved forward Tuesday, despite bipartisan concern from some lawmakers about the status of Kentucky’s bobcat regulation. The state legislature’s Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee has the authority to vote to declare a regulation as “deficient” if lawmakers disapprove of it or recommend changes […]

Chet Hayes thinks Kentucky has a decent bobcat population. Hayes, a district director for the United Trappers of Kentucky, an organization representing fur trappers throughout the state, said it’s difficult to get solid information on the elusive animal.  “It’s still growing,” Hayes told the Lantern in July. “It’s not in a position where it needs […]

The regional board overseeing menhaden management along the Atlantic coast on Wednesday  advanced a measure to implement new restrictions on Virginia’s only reduction fishery that harvests the oily forage fish within the Chesapeake Bay.  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s draft addendum would reduce the Bay-specific menhaden catch limits for the fishery, Ocean Harvesters, which […]

Every summer, New Hampshire’s seacoast draws visitors in droves, from sunbathing tourists to ravenous greenhead horseflies. Less expected are Atlantic puffins, which are rare in the state year-round and in summertime become so uncommon that a sighting triggers a statewide birdwatching alert. One of those alerts went out early this July, when eBird user Braden […]