Tag: oil and gas

July 25, 2018

Colo. governor asks to keep sage-grouse land off lease sale

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is asking the Bureau of Land Management to remove greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat from a planned oil and gas lease sale. The Dec. 6 sale...

February 23, 2018

North Dakota Chapter supports Bakken documentary

The North Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society has provided financial support for the production of a short documentary on the impacts of energy development in the Bakken region. The...

March 9, 2017

Zinke issues first orders as Secretary of the Interior

In Ryan Zinke’s first week as Secretary of the Interior, he addressed his staff to discuss his plans for the department and issued his first secretarial orders. Zinke’s priorities for...

February 14, 2017

JWM study: Energy extraction impacting ferruginous hawks

New findings suggest that intensive oil and gas operations may be causing long-term local population declines in the ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis), the largest species of American hawk, which soars...