Tag: policy

A federal district court has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated both the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in its management of the red...

The reorganization of the Interior Department from eight separate bureaus with 49 different regions to a new system of 12 unified regions continues, with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke asking his...

A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not doing enough to protect Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) from trapping. In his Oct. 26 decision, U.S....

Once found on six islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, the Hawaiian hawk (Buteo solitarius), or ‘io in Hawaiian, now lives only on the Big Island. Its population was estimated at 3,000...

President Trump has nominated Aurelia Skipwith to be director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, hoping to fill a position that has been vacant since the start of his...

Canada’s National Advisory Panel on Marine Protected Area Standards recently released its final report and recommendations to the minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. The report includes...

At a cabinet meeting Oct. 17, President Donald Trump asked all cabinet secretaries to reduce their agencies’ proposed budgets by 5 percent for fiscal year 2020. The call for cuts...

The U.S. Forest Service has released proposed changes to land management plans in five Western states intended to better protect greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), along with a draft environmental impact...

Citing habitat loss, wildfires and loss from predation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list the distinct coastal population of Pacific marten (Martes caurina) along the Oregon...

TWS submitted  written testimony to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board during its meeting last week in Salt Lake City. The advisory board provides guidance to the Bureau...