Hearing set for Perry County private hunting preserve (The Patriot-News)

A Carroll Twp. couple is seeking permission to hold private hunting trips on their property and possibly to raise and sell moose, elk, reindeer and other antlered animals.


MONDAY Q&A: Sled dog racer builds team to stay ahead of the pack (The Indiana Gazette)

EDITOR'S NOTE : Mush Lapper! Mush Cody! On Shadow and Teddy! No, Santa hasn't renamed the reindeer. Those are just a few of the names of the canines that make up Roger Carnahan's competitive sled dog team.


42,000-year-old intact baby mammoth from Ice Age on display at The Field Museum in Chicago (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

CHICAGO - Some 42,000 years after scientists say she fell into mud near a river and suffocated, an intact baby woolly mammoth from the Ice Age is to go on display for the first time in the United States at The Field Museum.


Cheap weekend thrills (Boston Herald)

ALL 'SAINTS' DAY "The Boondock Saints" 10th anniversary event ...


The Rise of Facebook Gaming (GamePro)

Facebook video game designers, including the creator of Civilization series Sid Meier, talk about the jump from developing traditional games to making games for what's become the biggest platform in the world.


What is wild - Caribou can be tamed. But should Alaska allow it? (Anchorage Press)

Last Friday at his farm on the south side of Bodenburg Butte near Palmer, Tom Williams encouraged a visitor to hold half a banana between his teeth so a bull moose named Denali could use its leathery moose lips to pluck the fruit from the guest's mouth. Williams calls Denali “my buddy” and pats the beast the way a dog owner pats his pet.


Chicago musher takes on Alaska's Iditarod (Chicago Sun-Times)

"From the Windy City … Pat Moon!" the announcer's voice boomed. A beaming Moon, 33, waved to the Anchorage crowd and rode his dog sled to the starting line of the Iditarod. When this Park Ridge landscaper was here four years ago, he was just another tourist who'd bid enough money for a short ride in a musher's sled. Moon liked it so much, he decided to come back — as a musher.


GREENSCREEN ANIMALS SIGNS WITH GETTY IMAGES (Post Magazine)

LOS ANGELES - GreenScreen Animals' (www.GreenscreenAnimals.com) high definition stock footage animal content is now being distributed by Getty Images. The distribution partnership will enable producers and filmmakers to readily access footage of trained and dynamic animals shot against greenscreen.


What the Sami people can teach us about adapting to climate change (Guardian Unlimited)

Elina Helander-Renvall comes from Utsjoki, a place so obscure that even many Finns have little idea where it is. Utsjoki, or Ochejohka, Uccjuuha, and Uccjokk, depending on which local language you are speaking, is Finland 's northern-most municipality.


Inclusion in Classic big chance for Joh (San Diego Union-Tribune)

The last time Tiffany Joh was inside the ropes for a pro golf tournament at the La Costa Resort and Spa, she didn't spend a lot of time analyzing the play. She was the scoring sign bearer for a duel between Tiger Woods and Adam Scott in the semifinals of the Accenture Match Play Championship in 2003, and it doesn't get much dreamier for a 16-year-old girl golfer.