They spray deer musk in big cat enclosures, and freeze a polar bear's fish supper in blocks of ice.

ECONOMIST: From zoo cage to modern ark

Next thing you know someone will claim that a bear with a fish in its mouth is a Woolly Mammoth!

FORBES: Still Waiting for the Iceland Sea Worm

"For years, the agreement with outdoor writers was that we could talk directly to biologists about innocuous issues like (fish) stocking and, you know, bear take and deer take, stuff like that, " said Glens Falls Post-Star reporter Don Lehman, who has had an outdoors column for 19 years.

WSJ: NY's outdoors writers chafe at information squeeze

"We don't have any substantial records that the oil and gas exploration have created an issue for the polar bear, " said Dale Hall, director of Fish and Wildlife.

CNN: Polar bear now listed as 'threatened' species

Tuesday's confrontations began when a California Fish and Wildlife officer was driving down a highway near Big Bear and recognized a man fitting the description of Dorner driving a vehicle in the other direction.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The US Fish and Wildlife Service must now decide whether to list the polar bear as endangered, or to put it in a lesser category of risk such as threatened, or to keep it off the list entirely - an option which would immediately lead to further legal action from the conservation coalition.

BBC: US ordered to act on polar bear

No-one has yet studied the net worth of the fish Lake Turkana produces, the benefits of the cattle pasture - and the costs that society will have to bear if those things disappear.

BBC: Water proves a prize asset