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  • Western Watersheds Project Files Legal Challenge To Denial of Endangered Species Act Protections for Greater Sage-Grouse

    Ken Cole

    For immediate release – March 8, 2010 Contact: Jon Marvel, Executive Director, Western Watersheds Project – 208-788-2290 Laird Lucas, Executive Director, Advocates for the West – 208-870-7621 In response to the announcement on Friday March 5 by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar that the listing of greater sage-grouse and two of its distinct population…

  • Nevada wildlife chief questions sage grouse decision

    Ken Cole

    More worried about protecting industry than wildlife. The Mono Basin sage grouse received a higher priority rating, a 3 on a scale of 1-12, as a candidate species than the larger populations elsewhere which received an 8 rating. Unbelievably the Chief of the Nevada Division of wildlife expressed greater concern about the industries that would…

  • Sage Grouse & WWP May Be Headed Back to Court !?

    Ken Cole

    ~ Jon Marvel Friends, Today, in response to successful litigation brought by Western Watersheds Project and our attorneys at Advocates For The West, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Greater Sage Grouse would not be protected by listing the species under the protections of the Endangered Species Act. The Secretary did acknowledge that listing…

  • Interior: Grouse listing warranted but precluded

    Ken Cole

    Interior: Grouse listing warranted but precluded By MEAD GRUVER (AP)

  • Sage Grouse Decision Will be Announced Today

    Ken Cole

    Announcement scheduled for 1:30 EST Friday Interior to announce sage grouse finding Friday By MEAD GRUVER (AP) Of course those opposed to listing the bird as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act are coming up with worn out one liners in anticipation of the decision. “The only good place for a sage grouse…

  • NRDC sues to list the whitebark pine

    Ralph Maughan

    Beetle kill, fires and fungus have greatly reduced the high altitude pine- Anyone following this forum for a while knows the story of the plight of the whitebark pine. Now the Natural Resource Defense Council has sued to put in on the endangered species list. Group sues over whitebark pine endangered petition. By Mead Gruver. …

  • Mexico to place 5 wolves near AZ

    Ken Cole

    REINTRODUCTION PLANNED AS EARLY AS THIS MONTH This story appeared last week while I was gone and there was a little discussion about it on the open thread but I think it deserves its own thread. The significance of this story is not so much that wolves are being released into the wild but that…

  • Oral Arguments on Wilderness/Wolf litigation heard today

    Brian Ertz

    “Wilderness Wolf Watchers” Coalition seeks an Injunction/Temporary Restraining Order preventing the landing of helicopters Chief District Judge B. Lynn Winmill is set to hear oral arguments on the Frank Church Wilderness/Helicopter Landing litigation this afternoon.  The “Wilderness Wolf Watchers” Coalition seeks an Injunction/Temporary Restraining Order preventing the landing of helicopters in the Frank Church Wilderness…

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