Court: Permit violates owl protection
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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 La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 9--A local lawyer's suggestion that La Crosse's proposed public intoxication ordinance would be illegal has been challenged by the city attorney.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 14--MELBOURNE -- The state wildlife commission voted Wednesday to stop issuing permits to developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, ending a 16-year policy that had been criticized as both cruel and a cause of the species' decline.
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Fish and Wildlife has made a recommendation for a small bird that stirs up big controversy. A battle over the protection of the sage grouse rages on between the nationâs energy industry and conservationists.
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By Mike TaugherSTAFF  A federal judge Friday ruled the permit that allows massive Delta water delivery projects to kill a tiny endangered fish is illegal. It is the second time in two months that a court has declared the state's water projects in violation of endangered species laws.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 14--HOLMEN, Wis. -- Town of Onalaska residents voted Wednesday night against the town purchasing 107 acres on Brice Prairie for a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regional headquarters and nature preserve.
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By Mark Larabee, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 14--A federal appeals court sided with conservationists Monday in  their long-running battle with the U.S.
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A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Agriculture Department violated the law by failing to adequately assess possible environmental impacts before approving genetically-engineered alfalfa from Monsanto , the New York Times said on Wednesday.
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The League Against Cruel Sports says it will challenge attempts to delay a ban on hunting with dogs.
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By Linda GoldstonThe great horned owl had clipped wings, was deathly thin and very aggressive toward humans when it was rescued by the Wildlife Center of the Silicon Valley.
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A timber-industry group that sued for a review of the threatened-species status of the northern spotted owl said yesterday it does not expect the bird to lose federal
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A disturbance free zone for nesting birds is put at risk by vandals who cut down the boundary fence.
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NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters Life!) - London has outlawed feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square and brought in trained hawks to kill them, prompting legal action against Mayor Ken Livingstone.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Bush administration proposes cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl.
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PITTSBURGH - A man says a traffic ticket a state trooper gave him is for the birds - or at least for flipping the bird. Stephen Corey, 42, filed a federal lawsuit because he says he had a First Amendment right to flip his middle finger at the trooper in July.
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Environmental groups went to court Thursday against Bush administration rules that allow the use of new pesticides with fewer checks on how they affect endangered species.
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WASHINGTON - Small owls that scatter mammal dung around the entrances to their underground burrows may be wiser than the practice would seem to suggest.