The tornado that devastated Alabama has also wreaked havoc with thousands of pets. The Tuscaloosa animal shelter has seven times more abandoned and hurt animals than usual. Some of those displaced pets are hoping to find a home in the District.

Remember the terrapin when you set out crab pots this year.

Maryland has become the first state to approve the use of Gonacon, a birth control product for deer.

Construction on a footbridge in Anacostia Park along the Anacostia river in Southeast is temporarily on hold now that a pair of very special visitors has taken up residence there.

Approximately 4,000 students from across the region are helping restore American shad to area waters.

Students from several schools in the Washington Metro area gathered on the banks of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers today to restore thousands of baby shad to local waterways.

Pro-amphibian activists are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency for additional limits on pesticides and increased protections for the area's frogs.