Feds try to save endangered Tenn. plant
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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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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.
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Environmentalists asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday to grant protected status to the California spotted owl, claiming the bird's old-growth forest habitat is threatened by logging.
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Environmental officials believe progress is being made against an invasive weed found in a northern Indiana, though more chemicals will likely need to be applied.
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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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By Barwood, Henry  Paleozoic plant fossils with structurally preserved tissues are rare in Alabama. Stems and cones of Mississippian age have been recovered from the Erin Shale in Clay County (Adams et al. 1926; Gastaldo 1995; Gastaldo, Guthrie, and Steltonpohl 1993).
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State officials are calling on the public to help them count and categorize all the plants and animals in Tennessee's 54 parks.
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By Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Sep. 25--The presence of a diminutive insect in the state has forestry officials on high alert.
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By Heath, David  Seagrasses, an ecologically important group of flowering plants that have adapted to life submerged in seawater, are in dire need of a targeted global conservation effort to protect them and lhc services they provide, according to an international team of scientists.
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It's 3 feet long, pinkish in color, smells like a lily and must be saved from extinction, conservationists said Thursday in asking the federal government to protect the Giant Palouse Earthworm under the Endangered Species Act.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Jun. 17--RANDOLPH COUNTY -- A rare species of flower will remain in its natural habitat in RandolphCounty.
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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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Fearful that growing pressure for development could cause the loss of vital plants and animals, biologists and conservationists are trying to rally new interest in protecting tropical forests and the keys they may hold for vital medicines.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated about 50 acres in Hays and Comal counties as critical habitat for two species of beetles and a shrimp-like crustacean.
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By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press  A farming couple is still battling to prevent placement of a landfill near a national park.   JOSHUA TREE, Calif.
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They burned it, mowed it, sprayed it and flooded it. But nothing killed the purple loosestrife weed, which has become a regional plague, until officials at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge set a European beetle loose on it.
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By ED CULLEN  USDA plant scientists, working in a small building on the campus of Southern University, cultivate a plant Web site that gets 50 million hits a month from botanists, conservationists and landowners curious about the native or naturalized plants growing on their land.