IN BRIEF
INFORMATION SOUGHT
Shooting victim ID'd as 29-year-old LV man
A man who was shot to death in North Las Vegas on Wednesday morning was identified as 29-year-old Jay Joseph Hagewood of Las Vegas.
About 4:30 a.m., North Las Vegas police went to a house in the 3100 block of Sudden Valley Court, near Simmons Street and Ann Road, after gunshots were heard.
They found the victim shot and took him to University Medical Center, where he later died.
Police still are seeking information on the shooting. Anyone with information is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
WYOMING GRASSLAND
Use of poison weighed to fight prairie dogs
The U.S. Forest Service is considering a proposal to allow the use of poison to help control prairie dogs on the Thunder Basin National Grassland in northeast Wyoming.
The local landowner group that proposed the plan says the poisoning will lead to a more controlled and healthier ecosystem in the 572,000-acre grassland, while environmentalists berate the use of poison to control wildlife.
The Forest Service expects to have a draft environmental impact statement complete within about two weeks, according to District Ranger Bob Sprentall in Douglas.
NEW MEXICO FIGHT
Gray wolf ordinance targeted in court
A federal court has been asked to strike down an ordinance that asserts a New Mexico county's right to trap wild Mexican gray wolves that the county deems a threat to people.
"The U.S. Constitution says federal law trumps state and local law when the two deal with the same issue," Melissa Hailey, an attorney for Forest Guardians, said Friday.
The Santa Fe-based environmental group and Sinapu, a Boulder, Colo.-based carnivore activist group, sued the county commissioners Thursday in U.S. District Court in Santa Fe.
The lawsuit alleges the county ordinance violates the federal Endangered Species Act.
