The calls of whooping cranes from an isolated corner of the New Orleans west bank cut through the humid August air like fire alarms, echoing back and forth in cacophonous, punctuated bursts of conversation.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a complaint asking the court to halt implementation of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management’s Grazing Action Plan and associated MOU.
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
The state of South Dakota did not submit official comments on a major change to the federal Endangered Species Act that will roll back protections for forests, wetlands, deserts and other habitats where endangered species live. The new rule will open some landscapes to development, logging, mining, and oil and gas drilling, due to a […]
A federal rule change set to go into effect this fall could cause big changes to Georgia’s landscape, and environmental groups are sounding the alarm. “It’s probably the worst action that’s ever been taken in the history of the Endangered Species Act,” said Will Harlan, southeast director of the Center for Biological Diversity in Asheville, […]
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.
Conservationists credit the Endangered Species Act for the red-cockaded woodpecker’s limited rebound, but they fear a Trump administration proposal could erase that progress as well as other efforts to protect threatened animals.
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the U.S. Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly […]
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
More than fifty whales have died on the West Coast of North America as of May 31st, already making it the second deadliest year for the aquatic mammals. Eleven of the fatalities were in the San Francisco Bay area, two as a result of ship strikes. Historically, 40% of grey whale deaths have been caused by collisions with ship propellers, but a new technology rolled out earlier this year hopes to reduce those numbers.
