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In the 1960's, no peregrine falcons remained in Massachusetts due to the use of a harmful pesticide called DDT. Now, the species is rebounding. Three falcon chicks being banded in Newburyport on Wednesday as part of a larger effort to identify these birds.

A boat heading to Grand Junction became the eighth watercraft infested with invasive species to be caught during an aquatic nuisance species (ANS) inspection in Colorado so far this year.Colorado Parks and Wildlife is one month into roadside ANS watercraft inspection and decontamination stations at the Colorado State Patrol Loma and Trinidad Ports Of Entry, […]

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The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and its co-Plaintiff, Native Ecosystems Council, have prevailed in stopping the Middleman project in Montana’s Big Belt Mountains, which was yet another massive and illegal Forest Service 20-year logging and burning project in western Montana. We believe the Forest Service settled the case because the agency had again violated […] The post Alliance stops 100 miles of roads and 5,000 acres of clearcuts on Montana’s public lands appeared first...

A federal court magistrate has found that the Flathead National Forest has failed to consider the impacts of new road-building projects on grizzly bears and bull trout, saying the United States Forest Service is ignoring science in order to arrive at its approval for the project which has been contested since 2018. Magistrate Kathleen DeSoto […] The post History repeating itself: Federal court strikes down Flathead National Forest plan appeared first on Daily Montanan.

LAWRENCE — The crow show is coming, bound for Prospect Hill trees after sunset.

The Massachusetts Environmental Police (MEP) recently uncovered an illicit falconry operation in Pepperell, following a complaint from NH Fish and Game in late 2023.

ANDOVER — Outside the doors of a Conservation Commission meeting on Thursday, a group carried signs hailing plans for a paved trail near a popular pond.

ANDOVER — Outside the doors of a Conservation Commission meeting on Thursday, a group carried signs hailing plans for a paved trail near a popular pond.

WINCHENDON —  The Board of Selectmen recently decided to approve the conservation of 1,365 acres of forested land rather than allow the development of a solar farm and the clearcutting of up to 400 acres of trees, according to the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust. Listening to the pleas of dozens of residents asking for […]