Feds: Even though they get no protections, West's pikas still bear watching as climate warms The American pika isn't heading for the endangered ...
Md. wind farm developer, wildlife group settle suit, scale back W.Va. project to protect bat A Maryland developer has agreed not to build ...
US wildlife officials to designate habitat, develop recovery plan for endangered jaguar The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it will set aside critical habitat for the endangered jaguar and develop a recovery plan for the elusive animal once thought to ...
Regulators: Builders of Pinnacle Wind farm in W.Va. must study bird, bat deaths from turbines The developer of a 23-turbine wind farm in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle must study bat and bird mortality for three years after construction and set aside funds ...
Idaho Gov. Otter uses annual speech to rail against a favorite target: Federal government Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter used his annual State of the State speech to pick on one of his favorite targets: the federal government. In his nearly hour-long ...
Court deadline looms for feds to make decision on jaguar recovery plan, critical habitat Federal officials are close to issuing a decision on whether to develop a recovery plan and set aside critical habitat for the elusive endangered jaguar. The U.S. Fish ...
Feds scramble to save 19-foot prehistoric fish _ North America's largest _ from extinction As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish — a toothless beast leftover from the days of dinosaurs — officials hope to stave off extinction by ...
Federal judge in Md. halts work on W.Va. wind farm, citing potential harm to endangered bats Work on a West Virginia wind power project has been halted by a federal judge who sided with environmentalists' claim that the project would harm an ...
A Mexican gray wolf moves through his new home, a third of an acre pen after being released from a cage in this Jan. 26, 1998, file photo, in Hannagan Meadows, Ariz. The wolves will be held in the pen for six ...
Federal agency says prairie dogs not endangered despite losing most of their habitat Black-tailed prairie dogs were denied protection under the Endangered Species Act on Wednesday after federal officials concluded the once prevalent species shows signs of rebounding. Decades of poisoning, shootings, ...
FILE - This undated file photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Alaska Image Library shows a polar bear. The Obama administration is setting aside 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an ...
Trampling blamed for deaths of 131 young walruses on Alaska's northwest coast Trampling likely killed 131 mostly young walruses forced onto the northwest coast of Alaska by a loss of sea ice, according to a preliminary report released Thursday. An examination of ...
