Record prices expected at Elk-Antler Auction

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING's, ANNUAL MAY ELK-ANTLER AUCTION is expected to fetch record prices. Last year's price per pound averaged $9.02, up from 50 cents per pound when the first auction was conducted.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE ASKING FEDERAL PARK OFFICIALS to grant national park status to Chicago's South Side shoreline. Goal is to restore wildlife and create a recreation area on land now occupied by abandoned factories and dumps.

AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED FOR GOVERNMENT ACQUISITION of a 50,000-acre sugar plantation that has been dumping pollutants into Everglades National Park.

THOUSANDS OF LETTERS OF PROTEST have been submitted in opposition to entrance and use fees being charged at California's San Bernardino National Forest as part of a FeeDemo program.

A 326-ACRE siTE IN CHEYENNE, OAHOMA, where Colonel George Custer's troops attacked Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle's village, has been given National Historic Site status by the National Park Service.

EFFORTS TO REESTABLISH WOLVES IN OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK is gaining momentum and is under study.-BE EDwARDS

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