ELKO, Nev.ELKO, Nev. — Wildlife officials and conservationists in Nevada say they’re making progress knocking down the white plastic pipes that miners traditionally have used to stake their claims, ...

A national conservation group is calling on the federal government to end a little-known but widespread threat to birds, particularly in Nevada: the use of hollow plastic pipes to mark mining claims.

During the 2013 Great Backyard Bird Count, Scott Bills phographed a pair of bluebirds at the homemade bird dough he places on feeders around his Halifax backyard. PVC pipes used to mark boundaries at ...

Claim markers are taking a gruesome toll on wild birds in Western US, says the American Bird Conservancy. There are about 3.4 mining claims in the region that are mostly marked using PVC tubing, which ...

R and T Nautical shop in Cape Charles looks like something coughed up by the Chesapeake Bay. Gray driftwood is scattered among tables of water-stained decanters, mud-splattered whelks and a ...

ELKO (AP) — Wildlife officials and conservationists in Nevada say they’re making progress knocking down the white plastic pipes that miners traditionally have used to stake their claims, because such ...