Bald eagle comes off endangered list
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The government took the American bald eagle off the endangered species list Thursday &#151; an official name-dropping that President Bush hailed as "a wonderful way" to celebrate the Fourth of July.
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By Sophia Maines, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 12--Grab your binoculars.   The majestic bald eagles are in town, and more are on the way to this favorite winter-feeding destination.
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A new study estimates that if the nearly 12,200 animals and plants currently listed as threatened or endangered disappear, another 6,300 "affiliate" species could also be lost.
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By LAWRENCE TANE III  The Virginia Department of Transportation intends to go ahead with bridge-building plans in Richmond County that a federal agency warns will affect a tidal creek's population of bald eagles.  The U.S.
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Interior Department biologists have recommended against adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list, a determination that could wind up benefiting natural gas and oil producers but add to environmentalists' concerns.
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By Jason Kolnos, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Dec. 15--ORLEANS -- Local parks officials are considering an  unprecedented solution to their piping plover predicament: Get federal and  state regulators to ease rules protecting the threatened species.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Jun. 2--The federal government on Friday announced its plan to protect bald eagles after the bird flies off the endangered species list later this month.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jan. 30--Federal wildlife officials have halted review of a $110 million water project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, effectively sending planners back to the drafting table on a project they considered vital to water quality.
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A bald eagle nest at the old Philadelphia Navy Yard has failed, but birdwatchers are holding out hope that the first pair of bald eagles spotted in the city in more than 200 years will nest again next year.
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New Jersey has spurned an offer by  Venezuela's national oil company to donate an island in the  Delaware River as a bald eagle preserve, but the eagles which  nest there will still be protected from planned development.
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Oman&#39;s Arabian Oryx sanctuary this week  became the first site to be removed from UNESCO&#39;s World  Heritage list after the rare species dwindled and the  government cut the park size by 90 percent.
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New Jersey has spurned an offer by  Venezuela's national oil company to donate an island in the  Delaware River as a bald eagle preserve, but the eagles who  nest there will still be protected from planned development.
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New Jersey has spurned an offer by Venezuela's national oil company to donate an island in the Delaware River as a bald eagle preserve, but the eagles which nest there will still be protected from planned development.
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service said on Friday its senior biologists have recommended that the greater sage grouse not be listed as an endangered species, a finding for
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A decision announced Friday to not list the greater sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species still leaves open the possibility the approximately 1,000 birds remaining in Washington could be listed.
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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.