Outdoor Recreation News

Timex Ironman sports watches have long been favorites of runners and triathletes, but the one thing they lacked was GPS capabilities.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will use the best scientific data to revise a 2008 Bush administration recovery plan for the northern spotted owl.

The River Mersey is the cleanest it has been for a century, according to official sources.

The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down.

Ken Worel with a giant muskie caught last week on Lake Vermilion. A muskie fanatic since his teens, Vermilion Dam Lodge owner Ed Tausk welcomed the opportunity to host the 2010 Gil Hamm Chapter Challunge that brought 175 top-tier anglers to Lake Vermilion.

Protected seals in Northern Ireland were decapitated and possibly shot, it has been revealed.

Malaysian prosecutors filed an appeal Wednesday against a six-month jail sentence of a notorious wildlife trader convicted of smuggling endangered snakes, saying the penalty was insufficient to deter wildlife trafficking.

The oil industry reports that the average number of birds that die in oilsands tailings ponds is about 65 a year.

The massive growth in the population of some big birds, such as Canada geese and vultures, is leading to conflicts with people and challenging wildlife officials to develop solutions.

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and a committee he appointed will consider two requests this week to overrule police who have declined to release certain records.

Wildlife officials are calling off this fall and winter deer hunting season on 100,000 acres in the Big Cypress National Preserve due to a dramatic decline in the size of the deer herd.

Corey Howell is about to get familiar with the Internal Revenue Service. The 14-year-old Melbourne surfer had to sign a tax statement of earnings Monday after winning the $800 top prize in the Anarchy Jr.

The Congolese government said Monday at least 26 people had drowned in two boating disasters at the weekend while denying initial reports that hundreds of people could have perished.

A state government in Australia has agreed to turn over case documents to prosecutors in the U.S. hoping to charge an Alabama man with the drowning death of his wife during a honeymoon scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef.

Police divers continue the search for Gervais Munger, missing after a boating accident on Saturday near Chambord, Que.

There's really no reason to be afraid to swim in Lake Norman or Lake Wylie. Or is there? On the one hand, the wildlife swimming in our lakes isn't nearly as wild as the man-eating piranhas terrorizing spring breakers on fictional Lake Victoria in "Piranha 3D," the campy gore-fest that made $10 million at the box office last weekend.

The Shanghai zoo has complained that it has no more space for exotic animals abandoned by the city's pet-owners. 'People should think it over before buying such pets,' said Pei Enle, director of the Shanghai Wildlife Protection Center Photo: ALAMY Zookeepers said they now have a population of 80 red-eared turtles and that they were forced to build ...

On September 4, 2010, at approx. 3:55 PM, members from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department Recreation Safety Section and Dive Team, and members from the Hauser Lake Fire Department and Kootenai County Fire & Rescue, responded to a report of an injury boat accident on Hauser Lake.

A Malaysian court sentenced a notorious wildlife trader to six months in prison Monday after he was caught smuggling 95 live boa constrictors in his luggage at the country's main airport.

As they like to say in the beer ads, it doesn't get much better than this. Catching brown trout on No.