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Feds remove protections for 10M acres of sage grouse habitat

WASHINGTON – The Interior Department said Thursday it is withdrawing protections for 10 million acres of federal lands used by the threatened sage grouse to open it up for energy development...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Federal government: No threatened species listing for walrus

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will not list the Pacific walrus as a threatened species based on diminished Arctic Ocean sea ice, concluding that the mar...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientists discover a species of giant rat

In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats. In one rhyme, Kamare and Isuku go scurrying up a child, one rat ...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

States argue for more say over endangered species

DENVER – The federal government asked an appeals court Wednesday to overturn an order that bars the release of endangered wolves in New Mexico without the state’s permission, a skirmish in a...

DATE: Jan 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wildlife autopsy reveals cause of death for Purgatory lynx

Throat tumor prevented animal from eating

DATE: Jan 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Rare jaguar photographed in Arizona

A rare jaguar has been photographed in the Huachuca Mountains in southeastern Arizona, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports. The photo of the big cat was taken Dec. 1 by a r...

DATE: Dec 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Judge blocks Montana logging project in Canada lynx habitat

HELENA, Mont. – A federal judge blocked a logging project northeast of Yellowstone National Park until federal officials analyze the effects of the project on Canada lynx that live in the ar...

DATE: Nov 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Rare New Mexico meadow jumping mouse populations discovered

ALBUQUERQUE — Biologists who spent weeks in three New Mexico national forests searching for signs of an elusive, endangered mouse that looks somewhat like a tiny kangaroo have found what t...

DATE: Nov 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

BLM presents plan to save Gunnison sage grouse

Cooperation with private landowners is key, officials say

DATE: Oct 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Court gives lynx ‘fighting chance’ in Southwest Colorado

Fish and Wildlife to consider Colorado as critical habitat

DATE: Sep 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Protections rejected for American pika, other species

BILLINGS, Mont. – Federal officials on Tuesday rejected greater protections for six species including the rabbit-like American pika, which researchers warn is disappearing from areas of the ...

DATE: Sep 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Groups rekindle battle over lesser prairie chicken

ALBUQUERQUE – The fight over a grouse found in pockets across the Great Plains is far from over as industry and state officials worried Tuesday that relisting the lesser prairie chicken as a...

DATE: Sep 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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