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Oregon AG Hires Two Attorneys To Head Up Environmental Crimes Unit

SALEM, OR - Making good on a campaign promise, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced the lawyers who will lead his newly-created “Environmental Crimes Unit.”

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Washington Wraps Up Wolf Management Plan Hearings

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Washington state officials are digesting hundreds of comments after 12 public meetings on their draft plan for managing wolves. The last hearing is (was) tonight (last night) in Wenatchee (wen-AT-chee). The plan would go into effect when the population reaches a certain level. But correspondent Doug Nadvornick reports there's disagreement about what that level should be.

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Washington Man Stands Trial For Buying Bear Gall Bladders

Today (Monday) in northeastern Washington, state attorneys will try a man accused of buying gall bladders that were taken from bears. Authorities say the organs are popular items on the black market. The practice of buying and selling bear parts is illegal in Washington, as Inland Northwest Correspondent Doug Nadvornick reports.

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Food Fight: Eating as partisan politics Edible Idaho Feature

Food has the power to draw people together like no other human activity — think Thanksgiving. But food can also divide. In the past presidential campaign opponents frequently used food to divide voters down party lines — think “those arugula eating liberals.”

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In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand looks at eating as partisan politics. For more on this story or to listen to past Edible Idaho programs, go to northwest food news dot com.