...the program, but like landowners, Beauprez said the companies will be granted assurances by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that will allow them to carry out operations without penalty, regardless of a listing. The USFWS, the federal agency responsible for the bird's protection, is scheduled to make a listing decision March 30. "They get assurances from the Endangered Species Act if the bird gets listed," Beauprez said. Beauprez said if the bird is listed and energy...
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They're doing so well, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering removing federal protections for the Yellowstone grizzlies in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. The Caribbean monk seal, which once swam the waters off Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, was taken off the endangered species list in 2008 due to extinction. The only subtropical seal native to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico once numbered more than 250,000, but overhunting left the population unstable.
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...mauled by a big cat."We are about 99 percent that it was a lion," Foy said. "The conclusion is based solely on the victim's injuries and the extent of the injuries."The man was recovering at a hospital after undergoing emergency surgery."He's lucky to be alive," Foy said.The attack prompted wardens to set up traps in the area. Foy said mountain lions typically...
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...endangered Mexican gray wolf population in New Mexico and Arizona grew for the fourth year running in 2013, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The latest end-of-year count showed a minimum of 83 wolves in the wild, up more than 10 percent from a count of 75 wolves in 2012. It's the greatest number of wolves counted since a program to reintroduce the species began in 1998, according to Benjamin Tuggle, southwest regional director of the FWS. "One hundred wolves is...
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Jan. 30--Does Anaconda-Deer Lodge County need a large predator policy? These resolutions have been adopted in Madison, Powell, Ravalli and Granite counties. As a community we want to be involved in these discussions about predators, large game species and livestock.
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Its recommendations include: * Creation of a "no surface occupancy" buffer zone within one mile of active sage grouse breeding grounds, or leks, within "core habitat" for the bird.
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Today, the state's wolf population is estimated to be around 680 animals, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Last year, Otter vetoed a bill that would have diverted money from Fish and Game to a wolf management fund.
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Department of Fish and Wildlife Monday said it was halting the hunt after nine wolves were killed since December, with none in the past two weeks. It had planned to keep hunter Gus Thoreson of Salmon in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness this winter as it sought reduce wolves and bolster low elk populations there. Wolf advocates initially lost their bid for a court order to force Thoreson to quit hunting wolves from his base on U.S. Forest Service territory.
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BLM should extend the comment period on a draft management plan for protecting sage grouse habitat, Congressman Greg Walden, R-Ore., said in a letter delivered Thursday to the federal agency. At issue is the BLM's draft sage grouse environmental impact statement, or DEIS. The agency's draft proposal is designed to protect the bird so that it is not thrust under the umbrella of the federal Endangered Species Act. "Many Oregonians have expressed concern to me that their desire to...
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Today, the state's wolf population is estimated to be around 680 animals, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Last year, Otter vetoed a bill that would have diverted money from Fish and Game to a wolf management fund.
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