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May 30, 2008
Interior Department Awards Grants to States to Conserve Imperiled Wildlife
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will award state and territorial wildlife agencies more than $60 million to help conserve and recover imperiled wildlife through the State Wildlife Grant Program. The grant program is designed to provide annual funding to all state and territorial fish [...]
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May 27, 2008
New rules for forest planning adopted
Archive | Bush proposes changes to way forests are zoned (2002)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Forest Service [...]
Read more...May 21, 2008
Energy development: ‘It’s David vs. Godzilla’
By BOB BERWYN
SUMMIT COUNTY — Energy development in the Rocky Mountains represents the most urgent threat to the region’s wildlife, panelists said Friday at a workshop during the annual National Wildlife Federation meeting at Keystone.
Conservation advocates explained that they are trying to work both at the national and state levels to stem the tide habitat [...]
May 21, 2008
A husband-and-wife team in Montana studies the elusive wolverine
Betsy Robinson and her husband, Steve Gehman, hunch over a zagging line of paw prints. On this bracing morning in the northern Rockies, the couple raced at first light to the end of a dirt road near Bozeman, Mont., strapped on snowshoes, and went sleuthing for a set of animal tracks supposedly spotted by a [...]
Read more...May 14, 2008
U.S. lists polar bear as threatened species
Edition Date: 05/14/08
Erika Bolstad - ebolstad@adn.com
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced today that the agency will list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. But there are strings attached: an administrative letter that will have conditions to “keep from harming the economy.”
May 14, 2008
Debate On Polar Bear A Reflection Of Skewed Societal Priorities
May 3, 2008
A federal judge this past week told the Department of Interior it had until May 15, 2008 to make a decision on whether to list the polar bear as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. And the environmentalists went wild!!!
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