Tag: federal agencies

August 23, 2018

Students have opportunity to engage with federal agencies

Registration for The Wildlife Society’s 25th Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, is now open! Visit twsconference.org for details, or register now by logging in to Your Membership and clicking on the Conference tab. This year...

January 30, 2018

Eastern puma declared extinct, 80 years after last confirmed sighting

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a final rule that declared the eastern puma (Puma concolor couguar) extinct. This review process began in July 2015, when the USFWS...

January 29, 2018

USFWS initiates reviews for several threatened or endangered species

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has called for a status review of 18 species currently listed as threatened or endangered. These status reviews, which are required once every five...

January 25, 2018

Interior subjects grants to new executive review

The U.S. Department of Interior has increased its oversight of discretionary grant allocations and cooperative agreements made by its various bureaus. According to a Dec. 28 memorandum, all discretionary funding...

December 11, 2017

U.S. federal agencies funded until Dec. 22

On Dec. 7, Congress voted to avert a partial government shutdown, as funding from a previous Continuing Resolution was due to expire on Dec. 8. The new continuing resolution extends...

March 25, 2016

Wildlife funding could better prioritize recovery

Some threatened and endangered species would be better off if Congress would show them the money rather than allocating funding to other species that don’t need it as much, a...