updated Mon. December 18, 2023
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The Missoulian
April 23, 2018
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed federal Endangered Species Act protection from about 700 grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem last July, handing management of the bears over to the three state wildlife agencies. A memorandum of agreement among the states set an allowableÃâà...
KFDM-TV News
April 23, 2018
Today The Conservation Fund, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), announced the expansion of the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) to include a critical component of the largest connected coastal freshwater wetlands in Texas. 8,169 acres of coastal prairie and marshlands that makeÃâà...
Sierra Sun Times
April 21, 2018
Rayen Kang, an 18-year-old from Johns Creek, Georgia, took top honors at the National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest with her acrylic rendition of an emperor goose. Her artwork will grace the 2018-2019 Junior Duck Stamp, which will go on sale June 29 and supports conservation education for studentsÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 20, 2018
One of the duties of the US Fish and Wildlife Service is to protect endangered species by enforcing treaties, rules and regulations with their counterparts around the world. The inspectors of the USFWS office in Torrance were busy on a recent Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport, in the passengerÃâà...
High Country News
April 16, 2018
In March, Susan Combs became temporary assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, in charge of overseeing both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Parks Service. Combs, a Texas rancher and politician with a history of hostility toward protected species, fought to avoid protectingÃâà...
Mountain Xpress (blog)
April 3, 2018
The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect two imperiled aquatic species in eastern North Carolina under the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, seeks protection for the CarolinaÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
April 3, 2018
A federal judge has swatted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for not doing enough to ensure there is a viable population of the Mexican gray wolf in Arizona ... More to the point, Zipps said, Fish and Wildlife Service must consider "the long-term viability of the species," paying attention to recovery needs.
Arizona Daily Sun
April 3, 2018
FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a Mexican gray wolf leaves cover at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, N.M. The tortured and costly effort to return the endangered species to its historic range in the American Southwest over the last twoÃâà...
Grand Canyon News
April 3, 2018
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon National Park. The USFWS said the fish is no longer considered on the brink of extinction and will consider reclassifying the humpback chub as threatened within theÃâà...
HuffPost
March 31, 2018
... an endangered songbird native to central Texas. She argued that studies show the agency was “wrong in its original conclusion that the warbler species is rare” and that the songbird should not have been listed as endangered in 1990. The Fish and Wildlife Service ultimately rejected Combs' petition.
ECM Publishers
March 30, 2018
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 94-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System which encompassesÃâà...
Northern California Record
March 30, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held March 1 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has authority to stop the southern sea otter relocation program authorized by Public Law 99-625. “The panel affirmed the district courts' decisions in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inÃâà...
Herald and News
March 30, 2018
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Klamath Falls released 2,300 suckers into Upper Klamath Lake as of Thursday, the first large release of ... in Upper Klamath Lake of both shortnose and Lost River sucker will continue to decline pretty rapidly,” said Evan Childress, fish biologist for Fish and Wildlife Service.
New Jersey Herald
March 30, 2018
Travis Francis/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP - A photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.The USFWS said March 22 that it no longer considers the fish on the brink of extinction and willÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
March 30, 2018
Publicly, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials, whose strategy to save the spotted cat has included building corridors between the two countries, has declined to comment on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's efforts to seal the border. But in documents and internal emails, the agency has madeÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 30, 2018
Susan Combs, a former Texas comptroller and agriculture commissioner, will be named acting assistant secretary of the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Austin American-Statesman reported Thursday evening. The news comes eight months after President Donald TrumpÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 27, 2018
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans on opening the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge to the public this summer following multiple public forums and a lawsuit that tried to keep the refuge from opening at all. The Daily Camera reports that Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager David Lucas announced onÃâà...
Beckley Register-Herald
March 27, 2018
The Center for Biological Diversity (the Center) and the Appalachian Mountain Advocates have brought suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. The suit stems from the refusal of the FWS to release public records concerning coalÃâà...
WGCU News
March 21, 2018
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are in Gadsden County to present more than 26 million dollars to Florida's conservation agency. ... Two grants under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Wildlife and Sports Fish Restoration program come from partnerships with manufacturers of hunting and fishingÃâà...
Wisconsin Gazette (blog)
March 12, 2018
SCI itself announced the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to the American public on November 15, the surest sign of improper collusion between trophy hunting interests and the federal government, and the announcement came during a Safari Club event in Tanzania where Sheehan was a guest.
New York Times
March 7, 2018
The United States has moved to allow hunters to import big-game trophies, including elephant tusks and lion hides, acquired in certain African countries with approvals granted on an individual basis. The decision, reported in a memorandum published last week by the federal Fish and Wildlife Service,Ãâà...
News & Observer
December 31, 1999
Building N.C. 540 across southern Wake County would not threaten the existence of two endangered species of mussels that live in Swift Creek, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That opinion, published last week, greatly reduces the chance that the Federal Highway Administration will seek toÃâà...