Tag: ESA

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 designations for threatened and endangered species under...

Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in late September challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision not to list the bi-state population of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) under the Endangered Species Act....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intention to downlist the red-cockaded woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis) from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act last week.  Red-cockaded woodpeckers were...

A newly released bill in the U.S. Senate would amend the Endangered Species Act, transferring more authority to state and local experts. The Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2020 (S....

The process for excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species is getting an update through a new proposed regulation released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

The proposed definitions of habitat recently offered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are “too narrow and lacking appropriate consideration of the diverse ecological...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed to reduce the critical habitat designated for the northern spotted owl in Oregon. The agency proposed removing about 2%, or 205,000 acres,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its first-ever proposed definition of “habitat” to be used under the Endangered Species Act. Neither the ESA nor its implementing regulations include a definition...

The Wildlife Society, as part of a coalition of nearly 50 partner organizations known as the American Wildlife Conservation Partners, is providing recommendations to the next presidential administration and Congress...

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 of endangered species under...