The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a substantial rewrite of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, a landscape management strategy that balances conservation, renewable energy development and cultural resources across 10.8 million acres of the Southern California desert.
Dropped a week before President Donald Trump leaves office, the move was quickly lambasted by politicians and conservationists, while the renewable industry approached it cautiously, arguing that the plan does need a second look.
Agreed to in 2016, the original plan took eight years to construct and was shaped by more than 16,000 public comments as well as input from dozens of stakeholders including the military, conservation groups, solar companies and state agencies.
National Parks Conservation Association Reports Groups Challenge Trump Administration Over Gray Wolf Delisting Published: Friday, 15 January 2021 05:53
The removal of Endangered Species Act protection from gray wolves in the lower-48 states threatens populations just beginning to return to national parks including North Cascades and Dinosaur National Monument.
January 15, 2021 - SAN FRANCISCO On Thursday, six environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rule that removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray
wolves in the lower-48 states except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made its decision despite the science that concludes wolves are still functionally extinct in the vast majority of their former range across the continental U.S. Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, the National Pa
Center for Biological Diversity: SAN FRANCISCO Six environmental groups filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration’s rule that removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the lower-48 states (except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made its decision despite the science that concludes wolves are still functionally extinct in the vast majority of their former range across the continental United States.
Wildlife groups ask court to restore protections for US gray wolves
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Gray wolf
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Wildlife advocates are asking a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation.
Two coalitions of advocacy groups filed lawsuits Thursday in U.S. District Court in Northern California seeking to restore protections for the predators.
The Trump administration announced in October that wolves were considered recovered from near-extinction across most of the U.S.
But critics of the move say continued protections are needed so fledgling wolf populations in Colorado and on the West Coast can continue to expand.
Rayzel: By day, visitors to Hovenweep National National Monument can marvel at structures still standing hundreds of years after Ancestral Pueblo people built them. But by night.
Pollard: (:13) It can be mind-blowing. Just the first time you see that Milky Way, shooting star. Just how incredibly dark those skies are.”
Erika Pollard is the associate director for the southwest region of the National Parks Conservation Association. She doesn’t just love dark skies, she wants to see them protected. Dark skies have many benefits, like for migrating wildlife, and their impairment also means a cultural loss for many people, including Native American tribes who continue to fight for dark sky preservation.