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Four gray wolves released near Meeteetse on Feb. 14 may have been illegally captured on his land. The rancher, Frank Robbins, was among more than 40 people attending a March 2 Hot Springs County Commission meeting to lodge objections to the way federal agencies have managed wolves in the area. The group ..."to tell the feds that monitoring wolves on private property would be considered trespass," ... "We were caught unawares," ... the commissioners "are concerned about what (wolves) could do...We don't see any of the plus side." whether any laws may have been violated in the case of low-flying...

Brazil clones dead cow BRASILIA (AFP) Sep 17, 2003 A research company claimed to have cloned, for the first time in Brazil, a living cow from a dead one. "Cloning can be used when an animal of high genetic value has died from an accident," said Rodolfo Rumpf, who led the research for Investigaciones Agropecuarias (Embrapa). He told journalists Monday that the calf, born September 4, is in perfect health. He said the technique could also be used to replace dead members of endangered species. In fact, the project came about as the result of an accidental death. An eight-year-old...

Dead Cow Conspiracy Rocks Railroad Dead cows and horses all over the tracks. That’s what Louann Lodwick claimed the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad trains were doing to her livestock. She sent them claim from counties all over the state and from the San Felipe Reservation. She claimed her animals--- sometime whole herds of them, were on the railroad right-of-way when they were leveled by locomotives. So the railroad wrote out 43 checks for more than $144,400. Lodwick started slow, claiming one dead horse in December 2001. BNSF paid $1600 for that animal. The claims escalated quickly to three cows...