TOWN OF WATERFORD - Facing mounting pressure from local officials and residents, the Department of Natural Resources soon will hold a community meeting to discuss their attempts to eliminate mute ...

TOWN OF WATERFORD - Residents and officials came ready Thursday night with tough questions for Department of Natural Resources leaders who defend the eradication of the mute swan locally and statewide ...

<p> <br>The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced recently that it will continue to reduce the Chesapeake Bay's population of roughly 500 mute swans, down from 4,000 nearly a decade ago, ...

Mute swans, an invasive European/Asian species introduced here in the late 1800s, are a problem. A BIG problem. Five were released in Maryland in 1962. A few years ago, we had 4,000 of the nasty ...

MUKWONAGO, Wis. — The swans that inhabit Grace Graham’s poetry are white as fresh linen. They glide across Phantom Lake like elegant apparitions, paddling webbed feet into stanzas she writes before ...

Maryland's majestic white mute swans have dwindled in number from 4,000 to just a few hundred, and a sharply divided state panel recommended yesterday that the invasive species be eliminated to ...

ROCK LAKE, Wis. - Two weeks after the state-sponsored killing of 14 mute swans left local residents riled, a state official said the program would end indefinitely. There are no immediate plans to ...

Maryland natural resource officials should be allowed to kill mute swans if other options fail to stop them from threatening native birds and eating underwater grasses critical to the Chesapeake Bay's ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Hunters can kill mute swans and other nuisance species under an emergency order by state Department of Natural Resources. The swans are aggressive and often kill native waterfowl ...