Members of Congress call for job creation in stimulus bill
Nearly 80 members of Congress wrote to House leadership last week to request that forthcoming stimulus legislation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic include a ...
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Southern Sierra Nevada region fishers listed as endangered
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 ...
TWS recommends stimulus funding for wildlife professionals
The Wildlife Society wrote to lawmakers last week urging them to provide the necessary resources to support the work of wildlife professionals responding to the ...
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. ...
Interior begins reopening agencies and facilities
In a memo dated April 30, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt informed Interior employees that, pursuant to the administration’s Opening Up America Again ...
TWS advocates for wildlife crossings
The Wildlife Society joined nearly 40 other organizations representing natural resource professionals, conservationists and sportspersons asking House Committee on ...
USFWS revises critical habitat proposals for garters, cuckoo
Critical habitat designations that would reduce the critical habitat for two species of garter snakes in the southwestern United States are moving forward — seven ...
Amid pandemic, TWS urges consideration of biodiversity in wildlife trade
The Wildlife Society joined more than 250 conservation and development experts and organizations from around the world in writing to the heads of the World Health ...
Federal court sends pipeline permit back for consultation
A federal court vacated a permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which will carry crude oil extracted from ...
Final Clean Water Act rule limits waterway protection
A final rule implementing a new definition of “waters of the United States,” published by the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers, will ...