EDITORIAL: Stop the Carp: Fund, Finish Invasive Species Barrier
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By Detroit Free Press  Sep. 11--Keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes seemed like a relatively straightforward request to make of the federal government. So it's deeply disappointing that on two fronts -- technical and financial -- the outlook is still dicey.
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A 20-year government effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout in Colorado has made little progress because biologists have been stocking some of the waterways with the wrong fish, a new study says.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.
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By JIM SALTER  ST. LOUIS - Voracious carp that can literally throw themselves right into boats and pose a major ecological threat to Midwestern rivers and lakes could someday be a meal at the local zoo.
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To: FEATURES EDITORS  Contact: Erika Viltz of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778- 9542, erika.viltz@wwfus.org   WASHINGTON, Feb.
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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 Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 31--If you're heading to Horsethief, leave your big boat behind.   The Idaho Department of Fish and Game drained the reservoir last fall to remove illegally stocked yellow perch, and it hasn't refilled enough to make the boat ramps useable.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 18--Conservationists found an unlikely ally in the fight to save Marks Creek: a home builder.
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BREMERTON, Wash. -- The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is nearing a decision on whether to scratch a two-year ban on keeping wild steelhead caught from some Western Washington rivers, most of them on the Olympic Peninsula.
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AS the Pacific Northwest debates the Bush administration&#39;s recent proposal to count hatchery fish alongside wild fish in applying the Endangered Species Act - and its new plan to cut
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Almost a third of the world's amphibian species are confronted by the prospect of extinction, naturalists say.
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By Detroit Free Press  Feb. 4--Biological pollution is forever.   Sea lampreys need to be beaten back every year, decades after they first swam into the Great Lakes via the Erie Canal.
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PORTAGE, Ind. - A coalition of environmental groups worried about the spread of invasive species into the Great Lakes from ballast water discharged by foreign vessels is calling for a moratorium on international shipping.
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By NANCY ZUCKERBROD  WASHINGTON - The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its plan for the Spring Creek Bladderpod Wednesday.
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Many imported plants and animals have become vexing problems and once they are noticed, it is almost always too late, or too costly, to eradicate them.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 9--Mint Hill, Stallings and Indian Trail will have to limit development in a watershed that's home to an endangered mussel, a state panel ruled Thursday.
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It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.