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Idaho is preparing to ask the federal government to remove Endangered Species Act protections for grizzly bears.

Steelhead fish. File photo LEWISTON (AP) — A large timber sale in north-central Idaho has been put on hold because a federal judge says the agencies that approved the deal failed to consider the latest information on steelhead numbers. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled Aug. 4 that the U.S. Forest Service and National Marine Fisheries Service didn’t take into account new data that showed the numbers of threatened steelhead were at a 25-year-low when they approved the timber sale in parts of the Upper Lolo, Musselshell, Middle Lolo and Eldorado creek watersheds, The Lewiston Tribune...

For Immediate Release, June 9, 2021 Contact: Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748, azaccardi@biologicaldiversity.org Rodi Rosensweig, The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society Legislative Fund, (202) 809-8711, rrosensweig@humanesociety.org Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755, gary@friendsoftheclearwater.org Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208, jbleich@defenders.org Forest Service Protections Sought for Wolves...

Readers of my columns can be forgiven for assuming that my every waking thought surrounds things political and historical. After all, at 4, I cried myself to sleep in front of my family’s grainy 12-inch Muntz television screen the night Stevenson first lost to Eisenhower. Four years later, w… More Headlines