Portland Seeks Habitat Experts for Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge
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The city of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services on Tuesday released a request for consultants to work on habitat restoration at the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, a 140-acre flood plain wetland on the east bank of the Willamette River.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Bush administration Tuesday proposed cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl, reopening the 1990s battle between timber production and wildlife habitat on public lands.
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By Zach Spicer, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  May 29--Richard and Kay Schwade had a good reason to attend the open house at the Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center last week.   Their property borders the refuge on three sides.
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BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. --  Third in a monthly series
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By RICHARD HINTON  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin its habitat restoration work this week for two species of protected birds, weather permitting.  The project targets six sandbars on Lake Oahe, south of Bismarck.
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER  PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon and Washington are drafting a proposal for "limited selected lethal removal" of protected California sea lions in the Columbia River to ease pressure on the spring chinook salmon run.
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State Game and Fish officials will help staff members at Carlsbad Caverns National Park remove exotic fish and amphibians from the pond at Rattlesnake Springs.
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The Bureau of Land Management is asking Utahns interested in managing and conserving federal land to try out for a place on an advisory resource council.
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The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.
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BANGKOK : Conservationists are preparing for key battles at a global wildlife summit in Bangkok as officials warn that the battle to save endangered species is being hampered by lumbering bureaucracy, unwilling governments and a cash crisis.
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By Shanna Hogan, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 5--Conservationists spent more than a year gathering 300,000 signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot that would preserve 694,000 acres of state trust land.
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By STACY PARKER  By Stacy Parker  Correspondent  OCEANFRONT  Volunteers are needed at the new Historic Villages at Cape Henry to lead tours and assist on-site.
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By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER  PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal proposal would slash the critical habitat in Oregon, Washington and California set aside under the Endangered Species Act for the marbled murrelet, a threatened sea bird, by about 95 percent, to 221,692 acres.  The U.S.
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By JUSTIN CARINCI  A path winds past ponds and under cone-bearing and leafy trees at Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center.  On a bleak April day, a fish hatchery squeezed between state Highway 14 and Southeast Evergreen Highway seems an unlikely place for natural beauty.
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By Tony Spinelli, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 17--EASTON -- The company that owns much of the protected woodlands in Easton would like to give hikers a chance to enjoy the great outdoors.
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.