North Dakota's deer gun lottery has been held and individual results are available online at the state Game and Fish Department's Web site, http://gf.nd.gov. Successful applicants will receive their license in the mail by mid-July.

Missouri officials have lost a court fight in which they tried to block release of water from an upstream Missouri River dam to help an endangered sturgeon. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases the water twice in the spring from a dam near Yankton, S.D.

WASHINGTON - Even as the government spends $45 million this year to restore federally protected birds along the Missouri River, the Army Corps of Engineers is killing some of them by raising water levels to allow a single towboat to proceed up river.

By Bill Graham, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Oct. 26--The Army Corps of Engineers has released plans for Missouri River water releases that include "pulses" next spring to help an endangered fish. Some fear the pulses will cause flooding.