Tag: USFWS

A new special permit will allow state and federally recognized tribal wildlife agencies in the contiguous United States to lethally control cormorants. In late December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released its final rule reducing the ability of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to prevent actions that injure or kill native birds. In December 2017,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final rule updating its process of excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species under Endangered Species Act....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that higher priority listing actions under the Endangered Species Act will prevent it from listing the monarch butterfly or uplisting the northern...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service have released the final definition of the term “habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. Until now, neither the ESA nor...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project have filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as other Department of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released the final environmental impact statement assessing its proposed rule that reduces migratory bird protections, which concludes that the new rule will result...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has launched a new electronic permitting system for dealing with protected species. The new permitting system, or ePermits, will help simplify and expedite 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,...

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....