Energy development in Alaska reserves moves forward
The Bureau of Land Management officially opened more of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas development earlier this month, releasing the final Integrated ...
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USFWS considers allowing development in rare lizard habitat
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may allow oil and gas development as well as other activities in areas that can harm or kill rare lizards native to the area. The ...
Final critical habitat rule released
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final rule updating its process of excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and ...
USFWS declines to list monarch or uplist owl
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that higher priority listing actions under the Endangered Species Act will prevent it from listing the monarch ...
ESA releases final habitat definition
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service have released the final definition of the term “habitat” under the Endangered Species ...
USFWS declines to list tufted puffin and ptarmigan
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declined to list both the tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) and the southern white-tailed ptarmigan (Lagopus leucura ...