BLM offers 2.85 million acres in Alaska for drilling
The Bureau of Land Management is offering for lease 2.85 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) next month. It will be the 14th lease sale there since 1999,...
TWS advises Senate committee considering wildlife funding
Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing examining the funding needed for wildlife conservation, recovery and management. Witnesses spoke about the need for reliable federal...
Court says USFWS violated law in red wolf management
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...
Interior secretary wants new regions ready by July
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...
Judge orders USFWS to strengthen protections for threatened lynx
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....
Hawaiian hawk delisting again open for comments
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...
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New leadership named for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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...
Report issued on Canada’s marine protected areas
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...
White House calls for 5 percent cut in agency budgets
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...
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