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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday morning that wolverines in the lower 48 states will be bumped into the “threatened” category under the Endangered Species Act on Dec.
Daines, Rosendale Push For Grizzly Bear Delisting Montana’s Republican congressmen are asking the Interior Department to remove Endangered Species Act protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks. In a letter sent Thursday to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Matt Rosendale joined Idaho and Wyoming’s congressional delegation asking for more information on how the Biden administration will handle grizzlies, including a timeline on when the two populations will be returned to state management. The letter comes after th...
After two failed attempts to turn over management of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears to the northern Rockies states, federal wildlife managers are not immediately recommending that the regionâs bruins be delisted for a third time. The guidance to maintain grizzlies as âthreatenedâ under the Endangered Species Act across their range in the lower 48 states came in a five-year status review that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Regional Director Matt Hogan signed off on last week. But the lack of endorsement for Wyoming-, Montana- and Idaho-led management does not...
Conservationists sue feds over lack of wolverine protections By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOSDecember 14, 2020 GMT SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Conservation groups filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to withhold Endangered Species Act protection from wolverines in the lower 48 states, where no more than 300 of the animals are thought to remain. The groups said wolverines face localized extinction as a result of climate change, habitat fragmentation and low genetic diversity. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Missoula, Montana, and contended that climat...