Salmon Numbers Jump at Central Idaho Mountain Lake
More endangered sockeye salmon have made the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to central Idaho's high-elevation Redfish Lake this year than in the previous six decades.
The Idaho Black Bear Rehabilitation Center near Boise has saved nearly 150 orphaned black bears since its opening in 1989. These days they are fielding calls from wildlife rescuers in places as far flung as Turkey, South Korea, Pakistan and in China, where officials are preparing to return some giant pandas to the wild. Read this AP story about their latest success story, a cub they call Twister.
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