Page 9 - Robin Silver News Today

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon Society sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management today for failing to protect a semi-aquatic endangered plant in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area from rampant trespass livestock grazing.

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Environmentalists have sued again over an endangered mouse found...

The meadow jumping mouse was listed as endangered by the State of New Mexico in 2006 and later by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2014.

In its lawsuit, the Center for Biological Diversity alleged the federal government failed to protect the mouse from extinction.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service for failing to protect riparian areas in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains from cattle. The area is critical habitat for the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse.

For years, two Australian mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP, have sought to build a massive copper mine in Oak Flat, a region of the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix that is considered sacred by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and other regional Native American tribes. The proposal, which was approved by Congress in 2014, involves swapping 2,422 acres of federally protected forest land in that area for over 5,000 acres of private land and constructing a roughly mile-wide crater to extract co...

The battle to protect Arizona’s remaining old growth ponderosa pines has flared again with a dispute about a timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest – with implications for forest restoration efforts statewide. The tense exchange of complaints and explanations centered on the removal of thousands of fire-resistant trees greater than 24 inches in diameter as part of the Jacob Ryan Project. A forest supervisor’s suggestion that the removal of the old-growth trees reduced fire dam...

For Immediate Release, December 18, 2020 Contact: Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project, (520) 623-1878, greta@westernwatersheds.org New Documents: New Mexico Rancher Who Pleaded Guilty to Bludgeoning Endangered Wolf Admitted Trapping, Beating One More FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— New documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity show that a New Mexico rancher confessed to trapping and beating at least one other endangered Mexican gray wolf in 2015. In 2018 ra...

A Mt. Graham red squirrel matriarch. (Photo by Robin Silver) TUCSON, Ariz. (CN) — Encroaching development and wildfires exacerbated by climate change have conspired to leave a squirrel species unique to a tiny niche of Arizona forest teetering near extinction. Mt. Graham, a 10,000-foot peak in the Pinaleño Mountains, is home to a University of Arizona observatory, a telescope owned by the Vatican, an abandoned church camp, and 14 privately owned summer cabins — all of which threaten the Mt...