U.S. to study protection for Alaska loon
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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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A federal agency is poised to say whether global warming means the bear should be added to the 'threatened species' list.
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By MARY PEMBERTON ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Despite an &quot;alarming&quot; decrease in sea otters in southwest Alaska, the federal government is dragging its heels when it comes to designating critical habitat to help them recover, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
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Despite an "alarming" decrease in sea otters in southwest Alaska, the federal government is dragging its heels when it comes to designating critical habitat to help them recover, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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By Bill White / Bwhite@adn.Com And Don Hunter / Dhunter@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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Two US Interior Department agencies may clash over separate and apparently incompatible efforts to help the northern sage grouse. The Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to
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Hedgehogs and house sparrows are on an updated list of species and habitats which need protection.
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The bald eagle is officially about to become a "conservation success story" for the U.S. government, which has worked for more than three decades to help the national symbol recover from habitat destruction, illegal shooting and contamination of its food source.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 7--RIDGEFIELD -- Two public meetings are scheduled in September to collect comments on a plan for the future of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.   The U.S.
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Scientists are  struggling to explain the rare death of 17 loons in New  Hampshire, saying warm weather may have confused the threatened  species of bird which typically heads to the ocean for winter.
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By Matthew Daly  WASHINGTON - Students from New York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands as part of an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to get kids out of the classroom and into the woods.
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The marbled murrelet, a threatened sea bird whose rare trait of nesting in old-growth forests made it a factor in logging battles in the U.S. Northwest, is also declining dramatically in Alaska and Canada, where most of the birds live, according to a U.S. government review.
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MOFFIT, N.D. - The Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge has at least two rare snowy plover nests, the refuge manager and area birders say.  Refuge manager Paul Van Ningen and his son, Aaron, confirmed one nest. Van Ningen and endangered species biologist Carol Aron, of the U.S.
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Snow is more important than ice in protecting the delicate tundra from disturbances, a finding that holds promise for a longer oil-exploration season in Alaska's rapidly warming Arctic, state officials said on Friday.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, although staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 3--How the dangerous pathogen Myxobolus cerebralis got into Alaska's fisheries is something scientists may never know.