Bald Eagle Status May Change
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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Declining populations of common birds could be the harbinger of bigger environmental problems, a study by the National Audubon Society concludes.
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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 Christian Science Monitor - Twenty years after the northern spotted owl became the prime symbol for endangered species and habitat protection, it&#39;s back in the news and steeped in controversy.
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Bald eagles, whose numbers dwindled in the 1960s, are once again flourishing, the interior secretary said Thursday.
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By Michael Babcock Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune  GREAT FALLS, Mont.  -- A 10-year-study of mountain lions by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is winding down, and researchers are almost gleeful with what they believe will be the results.
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The rules controlling the trade in many at-risk wildlife species may change at a Bangkok meeting starting on Saturday. The 166 member states of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
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The bald eagle was removed from the federal list of threatened and endangered species yesterday during a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial, as officials and environmentalists celebrated the national symbol's historic recovery.
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The American bald eagle, a national symbol once almost wiped out by hunters and DDT poisoning, has not only survived but is thriving. The Interior Department will announce on Thursday it is removing the majestic bird from the protection of the Endangered Species Act, capping a four-decade struggle for recovery.
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The bobwhite quail, which is disappearing in the Southeast, can make a comeback and add millions of dollars to the rural economy if landowners are willing to make changes in the way they manage their crops and timber to protect the birds' habitat, biologists say.
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THE American bald eagle has had federal protection in one manner or another since 1940. Still, that did not stop their numbers from dropping to 413 nesting pairs by 1963 in the Lower 48 states.   States and the federal government began doing something about the bald eagle.
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By John Cramer, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Mar. 4--The cougar supposedly disappeared in the eastern United States more than a century ago, a symbol of America's natural history and our unspoken fear of what lurks in the wilderness.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but  other birds of prey are in trouble.
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Wind energy may be emerging as an important alternative power source for the Northwest, but there are concerns about the danger to hawks and eagles as turbines expand to wild areas of the Columbia River Gorge.
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Though the US Fish and Wildlife Service removed the Tinian monarch from the list of threatened and endangered species earlier this year, it plans to continue to monitor the species&#39; levels on that island.
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.
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Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations.