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See Spot Recover
Bush admin debuts final recovery plan for spotted owl |
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16 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:43 PM on 16 May 2008 The Bush administration has released a final plan for helping out the northern spotted owl, after a prior plan was deemed to have been watered down by political interference. Critics admit the plan is an improvement over last year's draft -- which relied heavily on, ahem, taking out predator barred owls with shotguns -- but still wish more emphasis had been put on restricting logging in the t ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, habitat protection, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Fishy Wildlife Service
Bush administration misses deadline for decision on polar bears |
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14 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:49 PM on 14 Feb 2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has again missed a deadline for announcing whether or not it will declare polar bears a threatened species. source: Reuters see also, in Grist: Sell-off of oil leases in polar-bear habitat brings record bidding From the Archives 'Hyde and Shriek. CDC confirms FEMA trailers tainted with formaldehyde; residents urged ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, jackassery, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Bear With Us
Green groups sue over delay in polar-bear endangered-species decision |
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01 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:13 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Environmental and native groups have sued -- as they are wont to do -- in an attempt to force the Interior Department to rethink its decision to sell oil and gas leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, which is prime polar bear habitat. The lease sale by the department's Minerals Management Service is scheduled to go ahead next week; meanwhile, another agency in the department, the Fish a ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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My, What a Big Lawsuit You Have
Green groups sue over eased restrictions on wolf kills |
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30 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:04 AM on 30 Jan 2008 Seven green groups have sued over a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan that would loosen restrictions on killing gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. sources: Associated Press, The Missoulian From the Archives John, But Not Forgotten. John Edwards drops out of presidential race. Nowhere to Run. California's chinook salmon population near &quo ... |
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Hot Fuzz
Green groups will sue over feds' missed polar-bear deadline |
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09 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:55 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Discontented with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's announcement that it will not meet its deadline for deciding whether to list polar bears as a threatened species, the Big Three green groups -- Greenpeace, NRDC, and the Center for Biological Diversity -- have notified the government that they plan to sue. source: Associated Press From the Archives Granite State U ... |
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| Topics: climate, endangered species, Greenpeace, litigation, news, NRDC, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Spot On
Independent scientists will review federal spotted-owl recovery plan |
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18 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:52 PM on 18 Dec 2007 Under fire for allowing politics to interfere with prudent decision-making about a recovery plan for the Northwest's iconic spotted owl, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is undertaking a "good-faith effort" to have independent scientists review the plan, which in its current form would increase logging in owl habitat. A USFWS spokesperson adds that the review "will be o ... |
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The Endangered Endangered Species Act
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29 May 2003 |
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| The Endangered Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act is so cash-strapped that it is effectively "broken," the Interior Department announced yesterday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blamed the financial trouble on the act's "critical habitat" provision, which requires federal agencies to consult wit ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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