The Fish & Wildlife Service has announced a settlement agreement between it and several environmental groups temporarily putting the western Great Lakes population of gray wolves back on the ESA list. The Service concedes that it erred by not allowing … Continue reading
There is plenty of coverage of Sunday's visit by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to Fresno. Aquafornia has a nice roundup of the news stories — the problem with these stories, however, is that they fail to portray how truly uninspiring … Continue reading
PLF lauds Ricci ruling, which can help PLF's current lawsuits against San Francisco and Caltrans public-works contracting quotas The Supreme Court ruled Monday that New Haven, CT. violated federal civil rights law when it scrapped the results of a firefighters promotional … Continue reading
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) contend that Sam Hamilton (currently head of the Service's Southeast Region), President Obama's choice to head the Service, has underforced the ESA. PEER's evidence: statistics showing that, between 2004 and 2006, there were nearly 6,000 … Continue reading
The Service announced yesterday that it was retaining the Lost River and shortnosed suckers as protected species under the ESA, rejecting a delisting petition submitted by water rights attorney James Buchal. … Continue reading
It's a rabbit-like animal whose habitat is extremely climate-dependent. Thus, CBD as listing petitioner argued that climate change justified the pika's protection under the state ESA. The California Fish & Game Commission voted Wednesday to deny listing (this denial comes … Continue reading
Last week the Fish and Wildlife Service issued a new five-year status review for the marbled murrelet, a small seabird that lives in the Pacific Northwest. The review recommends retention of the murrelet as a threatened distinct population segment. The review … Continue reading