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LIVEBLOG: Public Meeting on Asian Carp Threat to Great Lakes

Federal officials want to assure the public that they're serious about stopping the dreaded Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes and destroying its $7 billion fishing industry. So they're holding a public meeting this afternoon to brief the region on their plans.Asian carp are a voracious invasive species that have out-competed native fish in every U.S. waterway they've reached. Local fishermen and environmentalists fear they're poised to do the same to the Great Lakes. Only an electrical barrier and periodic...

February 8, 2010

Coyotes Spotted on Columbia Campus

What's an icon of the American West doing at an urban Manhattan university? Hunting for real estate Early Sunday morning, a campus security officer at Columbia University saw three unusual animals hanging out in front of Lewisohn Hall, one of the school's classroom buildings. The officer called NYPD, and according to a memo from the school's public safety chief, the responding officers spotted one of the animals before it slinked away. They recognized it as a...

February 1, 2010

Last California Salmon Fishery May Close

Sometime soon, small-scale commercial fishermen in towns all along the West coast -- from California up to the Canadian border -- will find out whether their way of life is over. Their fate rests on an analysis of last fall's run of Chinook salmon in the central California Delta region. The number of salmon returning from the sea to spawn there has been dwindling since 2004, when the Bush administration increased water exports from the rivers and estuaries of the Sacramento Delta to growers in the Central Valley....