en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Wildlife headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 On a few islands in western Canada, white 'spirit bears' walk the woods. Now scientists have discovered why these striking animals, a race of black bear, survive. White bears are less visible to fish than their black counterparts, making them 30% more efficient at capturing salmon in the islands' rivers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8344000/8344367.stm Environment Salmon Wildlife British Columbia 11/06/2009 BBC News For decades, California's water wars have flared unabated - cities versus farms, north against south - while half measures left the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta drained and decimated. A solution involving all sides was only a dream. Until now. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/06/EDP51AF923.DTL&feed=rss.opinion Environment Food & Farms Water Wildlife California 11/06/2009 San Francisco Chronicle The deadly foam that clobbered seabirds in the Pacific Northwest has subsided and several hundred birds rescued from the slime are being released. But the death toll worries conservationists. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/deadly_ocean_foam_subsides_but.html Wildlife Oregon Washington 11/04/2009 Oregonian A rebate to plant trees? That's the city of Portland's plan to encourage property owners to plant more trees, which help suck up hundreds of gallons of rainwater every year, reducing the amount that flows into storm drains and, eventually, into local rivers and streams. http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125731371395092500 Environment Pollution & Toxics Sprawl & Transportation Water Wildlife Oregon 11/04/2009 Portland Tribune The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council claimed a legal victory Tuesday after the BC Supreme Court affirmed the right of aboriginals to sell the seafood they harvest. The court gave the aboriginal people of the west coast of Vancouver Island the right to harvest and sell fish and other seafood in their territory, although the right is not unrestricted. http://www.vancouversun.com/natives+claim+victory+court+ruling+commercial+fisheries/2179770/story.html Environment Food & Farms Salmon Water Wildlife British Columbia 11/03/2009 Vancouver Sun British Columbia is decades behind other North American jurisdictions when it comes to confronting the impacts that hydroelectric development may have on the environment, a green energy conference heard Tuesday in Vancouver. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=eed42880-f286-4d4e-9f57-ee751a98e415&k=10964 Climate Energy Environment Salmon Water Wildlife British Columbia 11/04/2009 Vancouver Sun Out of the 47,677 species in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, 17,291 were deemed to be at serious risk. These included 21 percent of mammals, 30 percent of amphibians, 70 percent of plants and 35 percent of invertebrates. The big offender: habitat loss. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8338880.stm Environment Wildlife Canada 11/02/2009 BBC News Northern abalone can spend their entire lives within a pond-sized patch of BC coastline. And that is where their problems begin. http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Rare+abalone+easy+pickings+unscrupulous+poachers/2165126/story.html Food & Farms Wildlife British Columbia 11/01/2009 Victoria Times Colonist When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area's wolf-hunting quota would be adjusted accordingly. They were wrong. http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_15989c18-c6a1-11de-93ff-001cc4c002e0.html Wildlife Montana 11/01/2009 Missoulian