USFWS officially rescinds critical habitat rule
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has formally rescinded an Endangered Species Act rule promulgated by the Trump administration that changed the process for excluding areas from critical habitat designations....
New collaborative conservation task force launched
The Western Governors’ Association and the Biden Administration spearheaded a new task force that will focus on bringing state and federal officials together to deal with conservation issues affecting the...
Wild horse gathers to continue in ‘public interest’
The Bureau of Land Management will continue to gather more than 2,000 wild horses from the Pancake Complex in Nevada after a federal court decision. The federal judge determined that...
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Foundation for America’s Public Lands launched
The U.S. Department of the Interior launched a new, independent foundation that will work with the Bureau of Land Management as well as public and private partners to help improve...
Congress considers trapping on refuges
The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife held a hearing last week to consider eight bills and one resolution, including one piece of legislation that...
BLM to increase wild horse gathers in coming year
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will increase the numbers of wild horses and burros that it removes from the western United States during Fiscal Year 2022, in response to...
USFWS to reconsider ivory-billed woodpecker extinction status
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the public comment period on its September proposal to remove the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) from the list of species protected under...
“Waters of the U.S.” definition re-evaluated, again
The Biden administration is planning to release a new definition of what constitutes a “water of the U.S.” under the Clean Water Act later this year. The Environmental Protection Agency...
Council on hunting and wildlife conservation reinstated
The Biden administration has announced that it is creating the Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Council, a Federal Advisory Committee that will provide recommendations to the U.S. Departments of the Interior...
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