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 Stories About: US Fish and Wildlife Service
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Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round
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01 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to reconsider her decision not to list the flat-tailed horned lizard as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Norton argued that the lizard has plenty of public land on which to live in southwestern Arizona ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, California, Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Tanks a Lot
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31 Jul 2001 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: Colorado, environmental restoration, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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Sharps Shooter Colorado man cleans up war-game carnage |
David Mayfield |
26 Jul 2001 |
Main Dish |
| The war is over and Dan Sharps is doing a body count. In a thicket of pinyon and juniper trees, something big and violent has cleared a path. Dan Sharps as a tack. Photo: David Mayfield. "Lost arm," Sharps says, gesturing toward one tree clipped of a big branch. "Lost leg," he says, pointing to another. Straight ahead lay the splinters of what was a large pinyon -- a hearty tree but not w ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Military, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Howl I saw the best wolves of my generation destroyed by madness |
Susan Zakin |
20 Jul 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Gray days for wolves. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Protection for the gray wolf, totem animal for the Clinton administration's conservation legacy, is likely to be ratcheted down from endangered to threatened, thanks to a proposal unveiled last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its announcement was a fitting coda to eight years of an administration that we kept wishing would do better. ... |
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| Topics: national parks, politics, ranching, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Whither the Wolves? New Mexico ranchers are howling over reintroduction efforts |
Michael Robinson, Writers on the Range |
02 Mar 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Two years after the first 11 Mexican gray wolves were released to much fanfare in the Apache National Forest of southeastern Arizona, and a year after an additional 22 wolves were freed in 1998, only seven remain in the wild. A lone wolf. Photo: J. & K. Hollingsworth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The problems the wolves face today are the same as those that ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, New Mexico, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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