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The red-cockaded woodpecker has lost nearly all of its habitat in the southeastern United States, but an Air Force range in Florida is part of an emerging initiative to relocate besieged species on protected land

Letters to the editor of The Capital.

About 60,000 acres of the 74,000 acres of land — or 81% — that Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson sits on can be used for public recreation.

Letters to the editor of The Capital.

There are more endangered species living on acres managed by the U.S. Department of Defense than there are in the nation’s national parks.

Letters to the editor of the Capital Gazette

The Navy is considering a proposal to build a second golf course north of the Severn River, at Greenbury Point, a prospect that concerns environmentalists and neighbors who want to preserve nature on the peninsula.

They came three weeks after the largest acreage wildfire in Fort Hood history.

As Congress considers a bill that would fund wildlife conservation efforts nationwide, panelists told the state Legislature’s interim Water and Natural Resources Committee in Taos that more funding is needed to support those efforts, but disagreed on efforts to reform the way wildlife is managed in New Mexico. The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act was introduced […]

Threatened fish at Beale Air Force Base, California, are reaping the benefits of a partnership between the Air Force and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Specialists from Beale AFB, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center and the USFWS recently completed a dam removal and creek restoration project there, making it easier for fish, including the Chinook salmon and federally threatened Central Valley steelhead, to travel upstream and spawn. The Army originally built Beale Lake Dam in 1943 as a re...