Endangered Species Act

  • Buffalo on Horse Butte © Ken Cole

    U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Denies Endangered Species Act Protection for the Iconic Yellowstone Bison

    Press Release

    MONTANA: Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) denied  Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection for the iconic Yellowstone Bison, 14 months after Western Watersheds Project and Buffalo Field Campaign petitioned to list these bison as an endangered or threatened species. The conservation groups sought federal protection for the Yellowstone bison because they are harmed by inadequate…

  • Northern Rockies Fishers One Step Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection

    Press Release

    VICTOR, Idaho— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the  Northern Rockies fisher, a rare and vanishing species, may warrant federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Fishers are cat-like, medium-sized members of the weasel family with slender, brown bodies and long,…

  • Wolf photo by Ken Cole

    Legal Petition Seeks Extension of Federal Monitoring for Northern Rockies Wolves

    Press Release

    New Study: Hunting Likely Spurring Harmful Declines in Northern Rocky Wolves VICTOR, Idaho— Five conservation groups filed a petition today requesting that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service continue monitoring northern Rocky Mountains gray wolves for another five years. The existing monitoring program, which is required by the Endangered Species Act after protections are removed…

  • Threatened spotted owl in decline due to barred owl

    Ralph Maughan

    Northern spotted owl declines about 4% a year- Throughout its range in the United States, the northern spotted owl has declined at nearly 4% a year from 1985 to 2013, according to a paper published in the Condor. The findings came from eleven study areas in northern California, Oregon and Washington. The owl also lives…

  • A fine new book on a famous grizzly bear family of Jackson Hole

    Ralph Maughan

    I recently wrote about the reinhabitation of grizzly bears in Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole. There, two female bears and their families have really caught folk’s attention for about the last decade. The book is about them. Grizzly bear 399 and her daughter 610, both of whom have now had many cubs, and…

  • It’s a bad year for Greater Yellowstone grizzly bear motality

    Ralph Maughan

    We have run a number of stories this year about bears, especially grizzly bears, getting in trouble in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.  Since then the berry crop failed and the whitebark pine nut crop is mostly just fair. The number of known dead grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone this year is approaching 50 (46 as…

  • The Greater Sage-grouse Denied ESA Protection

    Ralph Maughan

    Outlook for Iconic Bird is Bleak- By Greta Anderson,  Dr. Michael Connor  and Travis Bruner (208) 720-5595 Hailey, Idaho ­­– In a double-whammy that will doom the sagebrush steppe and the iconic Greater sage-grouse to a dismal future, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today the Obama Administration’s decision to rely on incomplete planning efforts…

  • BLM Given Notice about Endangered Species Act Violations in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    WWP Intends to Sue if Grazing Continues to Harm Bull Trout in the Little Lost River Watershed- Boise, Idaho — Today, Western Watersheds Project (WWP) gave the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) a 60-day Notice of Intent to sue for the agency’s failure to protect a federally protected species from livestock grazing impacts on eight…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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