Agency hopes to restore wildlife habitat
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On the Mississippi River, below the verdant bluffs that mark the far southern Minnesota-Wisconsin line, the federal government is waging a multi-million dollar campaign against the elements.
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Federal officials are considering releasing a large amount of water from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Grand Canyon early next year in an effort to rebuild beaches and aid endangered fish.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, although staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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As the gray wolf hovered on the brink of extinction a decade ago, U.S. officials embarked on a controversial plan to open the vast refuge of Yellowstone National Park to the pack-based predators in the hopes of rebuilding the species.
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Two US Interior Department agencies may clash over separate and apparently incompatible efforts to help the northern sage grouse. The Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to
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State and federal agencies are taking a number of steps to create better habitat for declining populations of Bonneville cutthroat trout in an effort to keep the fish off the federal endangered species list.
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By Anonymous  National forests will return to having environmental protections that were given to them during the Clinton Administration due to a court ruling in September. U.S.
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A recent deal to protect the habitat of endangered coral may offer US environmentalists new leverage.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service is under scrutiny for neglecting to protect endangered panther habitat. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Activists are concerned that conversion of the native hardwood forest to fast-growing pine is damaging crucial habitat for hundreds of plants and animals.
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A proposed change in how the federal government measures water for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta has environmental groups alarmed and California officials concerned about potential harm to wildlife habitat.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 19--Nebraskans continue to align for and against a federal-state plan to meet the Platte River habitat needs of four rare wildlife species.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - In the three decades that there&#39;s been an Endangered Species Act, a single principle has reigned supreme: If a critter is heading toward extinction, protect
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By John Cramer, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 14--Wildlife, water quality and eco-tourism would benefit under legislation proposed Tuesday in Congress to designate nearly 55,000 acres in Southwest Virginia as wilderness or national scenic areas, the bill's sponsors say.
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By Jennifer Bowles, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Feb. 7--Environmental groups on Tuesday put the U.S. Fish and Wildlife  Service on notice they intend to sue the agency for approving development on a  key Inland endangered-species preserve although land was set aside elsewhere.
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For the first time in three decades, critics of the Endangered Species Act are building momentum to rewrite the law implemented to save America's threatened flora and fauna, from the star cactus to the grizzly bear.