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 ...
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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 ...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service faces lawsuits over sage-grouse, lynx
The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project have filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well ...
Agencies agree to do more to conserve Mexican spotted owl
Under an agreement finalized last week, Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) populations in the Southwest will receive additional monitoring and ...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delists gray wolf
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the contiguous United States from the Endangered Species Act. First listed under the ESA ...
Challenge to meadow jumping mouse habitat designation denied
A U.S. federal district court judge dismissed a 2018 lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2016 designation of critical habitat for the New ...
The Wildlife Society comments on critical habitat rule
The Wildlife Society expressed concerns that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent proposal to update its process for excluding areas from critical habitat ...