Latest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service News
Environmental groups prevail on limit to grizzly bear deaths in Wyoming cattle grazing area
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An appeals court is sending a plan to allow continued cattle grazing in a vast, mountainous area of western Wyoming back to federal forest and wildlife officials, telling them to consider limiting how many of the area's female grizzly bears may be killed for preying on...
California condors confront bird flu in flight from extinction
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California condor is facing the deadliest strain of avian influenza in U.S. history, and the outbreak could jeopardize the iconic vulture with its 10-foot (3.05-meter) wingspan decades after conservationists saved the species from extinction. But nine newly...
Senate votes to limit critical habitat designation for imperiled species and drop bat's protections
The U.S. Senate voted narrowly Thursday to overturn two Biden administration policies intended to protect endangered species. Senators called for reinstating a rule adopted under former President Donald Trump but rescinded by the Biden administration that limited which lands and...
US seeks help to find out who shot 4 bald eagles in Arkansas
PYATT, Ark. (AP) — Federal and state wildlife authorities are asking for the public's help in catching whoever might be responsible for the deaths of four bald eagles in Arkansas' Marion County earlier this year. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last month put up a $5,000 reward...
Bi-state sage grouse considered for threatened status, again
RENO, Nev. (AP) — For the third time in a decade, federal wildlife officials are contemplating whether the bi-state sage grouse deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act. Conservationists blame “political gamesmanship” for leaving the bird in regulatory limbo since...
Groups to sue federal officials over manatee protection
MIAMI (AP) — Several conservation groups announced Tuesday that they're planning to sue federal wildlife officials, citing a failure to protect the West Indian manatee following record death rates in recent years. The Center for Biological Diversity, Harvard Animal Law & Policy...
Airlift brings used Christmas trees to rehab Louisiana marsh
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a Christmas holiday tradition — a few months after Christmas — that benefits the Louisiana environment. New Orleans officials joined Louisiana Army National Guard members and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday to place bundles of used...
Threatened fish gets 524 miles of habitat in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than 500 river miles have been designated critical habitat for a threatened fish species once found in Louisiana and Mississippi but now known only in part of its historic Mississippi range. The Center for Biological Diversity and the U.S. Fish and...
Florida sees fewer manatee starvation deaths as feeding ends
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The effort to feed thousands of pounds of lettuce to starving manatees in Florida officially ended for the winter season Wednesday, as deaths of the marine mammals appear to be slowing despite the long-term threat of pollution to their main food source, seagrass. ...
Regulators, landowners form habitat protection partnership
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration and industry groups pledged Thursday to promote logging practices and research intended to protect imperiled species on private forest lands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and two forest products organizations signed a...
