Tag: policy

A U.S. federal district court judge dismissed a 2018 lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2016 designation of critical habitat for the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse (Zapus...

The Wildlife Society wrote to the heads of the U.S Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management regarding recent guidance from the Trump administration that the...

The Trump administration intends to appeal the recent district court decision that struck down its policy interpreting the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to exclude incidental take The notice of appeal,...

Grand Canyon National Park and the Arizona Game and Fish Department have reached an agreement that will allow skilled volunteers to remove bison (Bison bison) from the northern rim of...

The Wildlife Society submitted comments on a draft strategic plan released in August by the Department of the Interior, calling it a good foundation but asking for better coordination. The...

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. House of Representative passed the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (S. 3051), which includes reauthorization for the North American Wetlands Conservation Act and funding to combat invasive species, last...

The Wildlife Society submitted written and oral testimony to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, calling on the Bureau of Land Management to reduce wild horse and burro...

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...