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Brown pelican numbers soar again
Palm Beach :: FL :: USA | about 11 hours ago
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Although once decimated by the pesticide DDT and declared endangered in 1970, the population has recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. There are now more than 650,000 brown...
Tags: brown pelican, endangered species, Brown, Palm Beach, Environment, Megafauna, Pelican, Endangered Species Act, DDT, Gaillard Island, American White Pelican
Federal agency says prairie dogs not endangered
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Mont. — Black-tailed prairie dogs were denied protection under the Endangered Species Act on Wednesday. The ruling came after federal officials concluded the once-common ground squirrels show signs of rebounding from decades of poisoning, shootings, the...
Tags: prairie dogs, tailed prairie, Albuquerque, Environment, Gunnison's Prairie Dog, Ground squirrels, Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Endangered species, Prairie dog, Forest Guardians, Prairie, Endangered Species Act
Salmon plan is close, judge says
Portland :: OR :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility District Judge James Redden praised the White House's additions to a Bush-era dam and salmon plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers. He said in a hearing Monday that "with a little bit of work," the federal government might be able to get approval for...
Tags: Judge James Redden, Columbia River, federal judge, salmon plans, Portland, Salmon, James A. Redden, Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States, Snake River, Environment, Idaho, Dam removal, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, Barack Obama, Tom DeLay, Endangered Species Act, Presidency of Barack Obama, Portland Oregon, Hydroelectricity, Endangered species
Ruling near on threatened fish
Portland :: OR :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Ore. — The federal judge getting ready to decide whether the government is doing enough to save Columbia River salmon will have a question for its lawyers Monday: If you have plans in your hip pocket in case the fish numbers crash, why not put those plans...
Tags: federal judge, Portland, Environment, Salmon, James A. Redden, Columbia River, Endangered Species Act, Dam removal, Politics, Portland Oregon, Oncorhynchus, Endangered species, Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States, Chinook salmon
Public comment sought for fruit growers supply company habitat conservation plan
Yreka :: CA :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) and application for Incidental Take Permits (ITPs). The applicant is the Fruit Growers Supply Company (FGS), a timber company based in Siskiyou County. The goals of this proposed HCP are to protect and improve...
Tags: FGS, ITP, conservation plan, fruit growers, proposed hcp, supply company, Yreka, growers supply, habitat conservation, HCP, Klamath County Oregon, Conservation in the United States, Endangered Species Act, Incidental Take Permit, Klamath River, Endangered species, Siskiyou County California, California Gold Rush, Environment
US takes brown pelican off endangered species list
Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.One more excerpt:"The birds' recovery and removal from the...
Tags: pelican, brown pelican, species list, green, Pakistan, Lahore, DDT, Extinction, Megafauna, Endangered Species Act, Environment, Gaillard Island, Salazar, endangered species, Tom Strickland
Brown pelican removed from endangered species list
Washington :: DC :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility Federal officials announced Wednesday that they were removing the brown pelican from the endangered species list, capping a century-long recovery that started under President Theodore Roosevelt. The brown pelican is a fixture in Southern California and...
Tags: brown pelican, endangered species, species list, U.S, Florida, Washington, Elkhorn Slough, DDT, Bird, Gaillard Island, Pelicans, Megafauna, Environment, Louisiana, Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, American White Pelican, Pelican Island, Pelican, National Wildlife Refuge, Endangered Species Act, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Ken Salazar, Extinction, Pesticides
Species-First, People-Last Statute Destroying Millions of Acres of California Farming Land.
Once again, the ESA (Endangered Species Act) has decided to put the interests of the people below that of a threatened species – this time the Delta Smelt. The Delta Smelt a tiny fish no longer than 3”, was placed on the ESA’s list of...
Tags: Delta Smelt, Endangered Species Act, Wildlife, Environmentalist, Central Valley, California, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Fox News, Democrats
Green vampires
Wildlife Guardiens filed two petitions in one month for 681 species to be added to the endangered species list. This move took the Fish and Wildlife Service by suprise and is really making them hurry since the Endangered Species Act requires them to find...
Tags: Wildlife Guardiens, Endangered Species act, delta smelt, California
Baker City Herald, Oregon: Ore. challenges abortion, endangered species rules
Salem :: OR :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Oregon is joining other states in lawsuits challenging last-minute rules changes by the Bush administration. Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Attorney General John Kroger said Thursday one of what they called the "midnight rules" would gut the Endangered...
Tags: endangered species act, bush administration, Oregon, endangered species, John Kroger
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