ASP changes how people view and treat snakes
ASP changes how people view and treat snakes
For more than 20 years, travel management rules have provided a common-sense approach: local land managers work with communities and forest users to identify which roads, trails, and areas are open to motorized vehicles. The result is a clearly mapped system that provides dependable motorized access while protecting wildlife, water, and plants on our public
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The Roadless Rule, enacted in 2001, sets aside wild areas in our national forests from road-building and industrial logging for wildlife, watershed conservation, and outdoor recreation. In the decades since these forests have enjoyed roadless protections, their trees have matured, safe from the clutches of chainsaws or the crush of bulldozers. Snakes and other wild
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A new 520-mile gas pipeline could tear through some of the most important riparian areas in the Southwest: the Muleshoe Ranch Preserve and Cooperative Management Area and the Middle and Lower San Pedro River Valley. This isn’t a minor detour. The proposed route runs along I-10 almost the whole way, but veers off to cut
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We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, so we’ll let this #SnakeHero tell the story in their own words. THANK YOU @RebelHawk12 for saving this Gophersnake and preventing future suffering. And please, DON’T use glue traps — they are a cruel way to kill.
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UPDATE: Thanks to your letters and comments at the meeting, commercial reptile collection has been BANNED in Nevada! The state of Nevada currently allows the unlimited commercial collection of reptiles, a practice which has removed almost half a million reptiles from Nevada’s public lands over the past thirty years. Nevada is the only state in
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Don’t Let Fear Drive Wildlife Management in Massachusetts Thanks to everyone who took action on this issue, we’ll provide updates as they become available. We have a sad, embarrassing history of persecuting animals we fear, often driving them to the brink of extinction. Timber rattlesnakes are one of many victims; they have been nearly extirpated
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