Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2020 introduced
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 ...
Interior
Interior report shows big game conservation progress
The Department of the Interior is making progress in protecting winter range and migration corridors for big game across the West since a 2018 Secretarial Order was ...
Federal resource agencies still lack confirmed leaders
As the Trump administration nears the end of its first 4-year term, a number of natural resource agencies still find themselves without permanent, Senate-confirmed ...
Interior releases draft strategic plan on invasives
In response to legislation passed last year, the Department of the Interior released a plan to decrease the spread of invasive species by building on existing ...
Judge strikes down migratory bird incidental take memo
A New York federal district court judge ruled earlier this month that the Department of the Interior’s Solicitor’s interpretation that the Migratory Bird Treaty ...
House passes appropriations bills
The House has passed a package of Fiscal Year 2021 spending bills that would provide stable funding for the departments of the Interior and Agriculture for the 2021 ...
JWM: Shorebirds take advantage of Alaska military lands
It’s natural for researchers to focus on the coast when studying shorebirds, but when Ellen Martin was studying them in Alaska as a master’s student at Colorado ...
Court halts road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge
A federal judge halted a proposed land exchange last week in Alaska that would allow for the construction of a 12-mile gravel road through the Izembek National ...
Interior lifts hunting restrictions on Alaska preserves
The Department of the Interior announced last week that it would amend regulations regarding hunting and trapping in Alaska’s national preserves by allowing some ...
Interior establishes Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prizes
The U.S. Department of the Interior will be giving out five new prizes for conservation innovations, including one to help control the spread of invasive species. ...