Southern Sierra Nevada region fishers listed as endangered
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has added a distinct population of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California to the list ...
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USFWS revises critical habitat proposals for garters, cuckoo
Critical habitat designations that would reduce the critical habitat for two species of garter snakes in the southwestern United States are moving forward — seven ...
Federal court sends pipeline permit back for consultation
A federal court vacated a permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which will carry crude oil extracted from ...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to review Mexican wolf management
In response to a 2018 court order, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will review its Mexican gray wolf management by preparing a supplement to their 2014 ...
California and Nevada sage-grouse will not be listed under ESA
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that it will not list the bi-state population of greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a distinct ...
Environmental groups challenge grazing effects on grizzlies
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in late March in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. ...
U.S Fish and Wildlife Service sued to compel bison listing
Three advocacy groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week, asserting that the agency unlawfully rejected their petition to list the distinct ...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to review dusky gopher frog status
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that it will initiate a five-year status review of the dusky gopher frog (Lithobates sevosus), the species ...
Court rejects jaguar critical habitat designation
A federal appeals court ruled last week that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s designation of critical habitat for the jaguar (Panthera onca) was invalid, ...
Legislation introduced would delist gray wolves
Legislation introduced last week by Reps. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) would remove gray wolves(Canis lupus) from Endangered Species Act ...