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38 Hawaii plants, snails gain federal protection

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:40:05 -0400

HONOLULU - Thirty-five plants and three snails found on Molokai, Lanai, Maui and Kahoolawe are getting endangered species status, an environmental group announced Friday.

Wyoming inmate sues again over eagle feathers

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:11:20 -0400

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - A Wyoming inmate is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming agency officials improperly delayed for years sending him eagle feathers he needed for Native American religious purposes.

Low river flows affecting reservoir releases

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:01:58 -0400

DILLON, Colorado - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says five western Colorado reservoirs won't be releasing water to help endangered fish this spring due to dry conditions.

Judge blocks logging project in southwestern Mont.

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:22:29 -0400

HELENA, Montana - A judge on Friday blocked a logging project in Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest and ordered two federal agencies to take another look at the effects on lynx, grizzly bears and elk that may be in the area.

FWS to consider concerns about endangered fish

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:56:16 -0400

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service takes seriously the concerns of environmentalists that two East Tennessee mines are a threat to endangered fish, a spokesman says.

Woman honored for efforts to help Utah prairie dog

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:08:05 -0400

SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has honored one of its managers in Utah for her efforts to conserve the threatened Utah prairie dog.

Bald eagle found dead at Okla. motel

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:57:30 -0400

SALLISAW, Oklahoma - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers are working to learn the circumstances under which a bald eagle died.

Team honored for delisting of Arkansas snail

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:27:00 -0400

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - The team that helped remove an Arkansas snail from the federal endangered species list is being honored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as 2012 National Recovery Champions.

Endangered Hawaiian hawks found shot on Big Island

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:16:09 -0400

HONOLULU - Two endangered Hawaiian hawks were found wounded on the Big Island after apparently being shot with a pellet gun, and federal wildlife officials want to know who is responsible.

Top Ind. wind farm drafts bat-protection plans

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:50:53 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS - The operators of Indiana's largest wind farm are proposing changing the nighttime operations of the farm's 300-plus wind turbines to protect endangered Indiana bats from being killed by the turbines' spinning blades.

Group to sue to force polar bear recovery plan

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:20:29 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An environmental group has given formal notice it will go to court to force the federal government to complete a recovery plan for threatened polar bears.

Ark. mountain snail dropped from endangered list

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:57:23 -0400

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - A dime-sized snail found only on Mount Magazine in western Arkansas has become the first invertebrate to be delisted under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday.

AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:30:47 -0400

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyoming - It's the not-so-green secret of the nation's wind-energy boom: Spinning turbines are killing thousands of federally protected birds, including eagles, each year.

AP IMPACT: Wind farms gets pass on eagle deaths

Tue, 14 May 2013 03:29:43 -0400

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyoming - The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Murkowski pushes Izembek road with administration

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:10:26 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska U.S. senator hopes that Obama administration officials will support a plan to put a road through a national wildlife refuge after taking trips to a rural village.

Protections for wolverines draw states' opposition

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:46:25 -0400

BILLINGS, Montana - State officials in the Northern Rockies on Monday lined up against a federal proposal to give new protections to the carnivorous wolverine, as climate change threatens to melt the species' snowy mountain strongholds.

Georgia bat population under threat

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:08:20 -0400

ATLANTA - Some evenings, Frank Bibin takes a chair, sets it under the pecan trees that grow outside his home and makes himself comfortable. In one hand he holds a flashlight; the other grasps a device no larger than a cell phone. He waits.

Chemical blamed for deaths of 5 eagles in Va.

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:21:34 -0400

BIRDSNEST, Virginia - Authorities say a chemical caused the deaths of five bald eagles on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

SD girl's win in national stamp contest restored

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:01:11 -0400

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - A 6-year-old South Dakota girl who was disqualified as the winner of a national duck stamp competition after her age sparked discussion about her artistic abilities has had her win restored.

Prime Hook conservation plan under way

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:32:26 -0400

DOVER, Delaware - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is implementing a comprehensive conservation plan for Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware.

Alaska ferries lose nature experts to budget cuts

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:37:36 -0400

JUNEAU, Alaska - As the sun creeps into the sleeping quarters of the Tustumena, passengers who take a second to look out the window wake up to volcanic topography, sky blue lakes and wildlife that looks extraterrestrial even to most Alaskans.