Cat fights ensue over forest fur!

Biologists, wild life enthusiasts and the likes of such trained people should be spending more time in ethology and conservation. Now, the latest news about five biologists intrigues one. They have gone a wild forest trek in two Washington forests, specifically the Wenatchee and Gifford Pinchott national forests and emerged with bits of lynx fur strategically planted in the forest land. That has left forest officials jinxed and lynxed about the origins of the fur and reasons for its appearance in the forest.

Bushed by the fur of an endangered speices being indiscriminately placed, forest officials in Utah have been raging wild.

According to Jim Hansen, five government biologists were trying to limit human activity in two Washington forests by planting fur samples from a Canadian lynx, a protected species, in the area. The incident has triggered off a political catfight gaining momentum from the vast evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest to the halls of Congress.

According to Andy Stahl, executive director of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, "At no time was there any attempt made by the scientists to fabricate a lynx presence,". Cousins of the common bobcat, their numbers have been plummetting to absurdly low levels in the recent past. If the snowshoe hare return in large numbers, the Canadian lynx's favourite food, so too would the lynx. However, the biologists action foxes one about their intentions, whether good or bad, ethical or unethical?