Parasite Forces Md. to Kill 80,000 Trout
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By DAVID DISHNEAU  HAGERSTOWN, Md. - A parasite that causes trout to swim in circles until they die has been found in two hatcheries in western Maryland, meaning 80,000 fish that would have been stocked in lakes and streams this year will instead be destroyed, an official said Thursday.
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CULEBRA CREEK, Colo  - As the snow melts from the towering peaks in the distance, Culebra Creek runs fast and the trout are biting. But Van Beecham, a fourth generation fishing guide, is uneasy.
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Milwaukee County Zoo workers are trying to help scientists slow the spread of a fungus that has killed millions of frogs and expunged species.
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Prince George's authorities reported Wednesday that a county resident has likely contracted West Nile virus, the first human case of the mosquito-borne illness in the region this year.
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Biologists at Washington State University say they have isolated a bacteria that may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the past five decades.
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By The Associated Press  HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Millions of gypsy moth caterpillars are devouring forest greenery across western, northern and central Maryland in what state pest-control experts say is the worst infestation in 12 years.
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As the Boston Red Sox buried decades of futility and anguish this week, the Maryland football program has slain its own mighty dragon.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.
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Officials have confirmed that two more birds found dead in Humboldt County perished from the West Nile virus. County Vector Control Officer Brent Whitener said two birds
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A federal agency recommended killing about 30 sea lions a year at a Columbia River dam where the marine animals feast on salmon migrating upriver to spawn
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A federal judge imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps he says were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Environment activists piled thousands of dead fish at the foot of Berlin's biggest tourist attraction, the Brandenburg Gate, Tuesday in a demonstration against over-fishing and pollution in the North Sea.
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By Brent Champaco, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 15--Lucinda Wingard says she's noticed the toll humans are taking on the Crescent Valley Watershed of Gig Harbor.   She lives in the area that scientists consider one of the most biologically diverse in Pierce County.
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U.S. scientists are trying to determine what is causing a widespread fish kill in the Hood Canal, a fjord-like side basin of Washington State's Puget Sound.  The canal has historically been a deep and poorly flushed waterway with low dissolved oxygen concentrations.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 8--County's vision for limited development near Swift Reservoir looks promising   It is way too easy for the 400,000-plus residents of Clark County to dismiss as insignificant the civic affairs of adjacent Skamania County, population 10,300.
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By The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 9--Last year, the threat facing Maryland's diamondback terrapin was as plain as the little noses on their faces. Demand for them as food or pets had skyrocketed.