Endangered rabbits return to Washington
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The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is finally back in its old stomping grounds, munching olive-drab sagebrush and hopefully doing what rabbits do best.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulled two species be pulled from the endangered list on Monday and recommended that four be downlisted from endangered to threatened on Monday, saying there's been much progress toward wildlife recovery in California.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Aquarium in Baltimore's Marine Animal Rescue Program today released a rehabilitated endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle. The turtle was stranded in June on Hooper's Island in the Chesapeake Bay.
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ASHLAND, Ore.  - A Bush administration decision to  eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered  U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to  protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
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By Idaho Statesman, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Dec. 19--The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today it will propose delisting Rocky Mountain wolves as endangered in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming by the end of January.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Thursday, June 21:  The Bush administration unfortunately has reopened an old controversy with its plan to reduce protected habitat for the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.
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By Jim Kershner, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun.
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By Kelly Kearsley, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Mar. 9--The Port of Tacoma is building a new aquatic habitat on the Puyallup River that will function as a rest stop for baby salmon making their way to Puget Sound.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 7--RIDGEFIELD -- Two public meetings are scheduled in September to collect comments on a plan for the future of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.   The U.S.
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The director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may keep a rare jumping mouse in the Rocky Mountains on the endangered species list after all.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 13--Commercial fishing for spring chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River is on hold for at least another week.
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By Kie Relyea, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb. 9--If you've ever walked the beach at Larrabee State Park and wanted to know more about the intertidal creatures you were admiring, an upcoming guided tour of the tide flats and rocky shore of Wildcat Cove should help satisfy your curiosity.
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It was more pep rally than news conference, with the mayor and city officials wearing red Washington Senators caps, the ones with the curly "W" on the front. Baseball returned to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years Wednesday, with an announcement from Major League Baseball that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next season.
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The American bald eagle, pushed to  near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is  now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species  list, the U.S. interior secretary said on Thursday.
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By Arthur H. Rotstein Associated Press  CABEZA PRIETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Ariz. -- Federal wildlife biologist Mike Coffeen is ecstatic these days. His efforts to save North America's fastest mammal -- the endangered Sonoran pronghorn - - are succeeding beyond expectations.
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US wildlife authorities said they will remove wolves from the endangered species list in three states and want to de-list the animals in three more regions, paving the way for hunting the creatures for the first time in decades.