BNSF Plan Aims To Reduce Train-Related Grizzly Bear Deaths
The BNSF Railway Company Tuesday published a long-awaited habitat conservation plan intended to reduce grizzly bear mortalities in Northwest Montana.
Eight grizzlies were killed on railroads in near Glacier National Park in 2019, the most of any year on record. Those bears are listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. That same year, conservation groups threatened to sue, alleging those railway-related deaths violated a part of the ESA that prohibits all killing of protected animals, even if it’s accidental.
That’s just the latest in two decades of legal threats over railroads and grizzly conservation, says Courtney Wallace, a spokesperson with BNSF.
A conservation group has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service over what it said was underestimated impacts to grizzly bears from “widespread illegal road use” in Helena-Lewis
The interior least tern, a hardy Midwestern bird that survived a craze for its plumage and dam building that destroyed much of its habitat in Oklahoma and other
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Federal investigators looking for person who marked TRUMP on Florida manatee s back
Center of Biological Diversity announced a $5,000 reward for info TRUMP carved into Florida manatee s back
By: WFTS Staff
and last updated 2021-01-11 22:49:13-05
HOMOSASSA, Fla. â Federal investigators are looking for the person who carved the word TRUMP on the back of a Florida manatee.
Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Floridaâs Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission began investigating the crime after the manatee was found Sunday with serious scarring with the president s name. The carving went through the layer of algae that covers the manatee s back.