The Center for Biological Diversity plans to bring a lawsuit against the Trump administration for downlisting the American burying beetle, which has a population on Nantucket, under the Endangered Species Act.
The nonprofit sent the U.S. Department of the Interior a 60-day notice on Tuesday that it intended to sue in federal court for violations of the Endangered Species Act.
“Without the protections that accompany the ESA’s endangered status, the American burying beetle will soon join the multitude of species driven to extinction by humans,” the center wrote in the notice to the secretary of the Interior.
The black-and-orange wine-cork-sized beetle has been on the Endangered Species list since 1989. Although the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said that climate change could wipe out wide swaths of the insect within 20 years, the service changed its listing from “endangered” to threatened
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Average annual temperatures in northeast Minnesota are rising, and the summer growing season is becoming sporadic and unpredictable. These trends threaten the iconic forested landscapes of the Northwoods, as well as the tourism, forestry industry and wildlife that depend on them.
“I am planning to live here and want to make sure I can walk in the woods when I’m old. We’ll need a forest for that,” said Joel Bransky, an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer with the University of Minnesota Extension Northeast Regional Sustainable Development Partnership (Northeast RSDP).
Northeast RSDP AmeriCorps volunteer Joel Bransky (right) collected climate-smart tree seeds with Kelly Popham (left). Photo credit: Debby Flowers.
For most Wyomingites, we started the 2021 with at least some sort of plan for how we plan to attack the new year. A new video takes it a step further by giving you three animal options to best describe how you plan on proceeding.
The official US Department of the Interior Twitter posted the following short 30-second video, along with a caption that read:
Otter, fox, or bison, which one represents how you re heading into 2021?
OtterFox faceBison
Video clips from @YellowstoneNPS #Wyoming #Montana #Idaho
I m going with the bison personally. It s big, powerful and can move with a lot of speed if it s needed to. In the video above, it s moving a slow, but steady pace. That s how I plan to conquer 2021, steady, but showing my power.
DOI - Billings is a 100% leased regional facility that houses several of DOI’s key bureaus, including the Rocky Mountain Regional Office for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), one of only twelve regional offices for the BIA nationally, the Bureau of Reclamation, which serves as the headquarters for the Missouri Basin and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Region and the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration.
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Easterly Government Properties Acquires 149,110 SF U.S. Department of the Interior Regional Office and Warehouse Facility in Billings, Montana
December 24, 2020 GMT
WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 24, 2020
Easterly Government Properties, Inc. (NYSE: DEA), a fully integrated real estate investment trust focused primarily on the acquisition, development and management of Class A commercial properties leased to the U.S. Government, announced today that it has acquired a 149,110-square foot U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) regional office and warehouse facility in Billings, Montana (“DOI - Billings”).