Appeal Rejected in Trout Restoration Plan
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The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday rejected environmentalists' appeal of a plan to poison a stream south of Lake Tahoe to aid what wildlife officials call "the rarest trout in America."
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Biologists, smarting from research showing that they may have been protecting the wrong fish for decades, are regrouping in their efforts to restore a rare type of trout to Colorado waters.
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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By SE RUCKMAN  PAWHUSKA -- Private landowners voiced strong opposition this week to a proposed Osage Nation environmental law that would assert jurisdiction over the wildlife, land and water on its reservation.
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Supporters of fox hunting lost a key court appeal to have the government overturn a ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales, two days before it takes effect.
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There is insufficient evidence to list a fish known as the longnose sucker as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday.
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Researchers from the University of Wyoming are trying to determine why the cutthroat trout population in Yellowstone National Park continues to decline and what steps can be taken to preserve the native fish.
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A federal judge in Colorado has ordered the US Fish and Wildlife Service to re-evaluate the status of Yellowstone cutthroat trout and whether the fish should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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Science, not politics, for King William Reservoir  The decision by the State Water Control Board in Richmond to deny Newport News a permit extension for its proposed King William Reservoir (news, Sept.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr.; Journal Staff Writer  The state Department of Environmental Protection issued a "superseding order" that overrules the town Conservation Commission's rejection of a plan by Weaver's Cove.
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WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that he has scrapped a proposal critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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By Rocky Barker, The Idaho Statesman, Boise May 25--A federal judge chastised the Bonneville Power Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday for violating commitments to minimize killing endangered salmon at the Columbia and Snake rivers dams. U.S.
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved a 22,000-acre logging project that affects northern spotted owl habitat in southern Oregon.
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By THOMAS CONTENT and LEE BERGQUIST  In a setback for the state's largest utility, a Dane County circuit judge has ruled that a water permit for the $2.2 billion power plant under construction in Oak Creek does not comply with a recent federal appeals court decision.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 9--Mint Hill, Stallings and Indian Trail will have to limit development in a watershed that's home to an endangered mussel, a state panel ruled Thursday.
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Graham Bradley's appeal against a five-year racing ban is unsuccessful.
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Plans by the European Commission to close some areas round British coasts to cod fishing will be opposed by the UK.