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CWD reaches a new northern limit with discovery of deer disease in Beltrami County Discovery on Beltrami County farm threatens animals on tribal lands.  April 15, 2021 — 9:14pm Text size Copy shortlink: The latest confirmed spread of chronic wasting disease has taken the dreaded deer threat as far north as it's ever been found in Minnesota, to an area northeast of Bemidji where tribal hunting is now at increased risk for CWD. State officials earlier this month confirmed that the contagious and always fatal neurological disease in...

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 f...

NationofChange Groups challenge Trump administration’s delisting of gray wolves The lawsuit claims the United States Fish and Wildlife Service made a decision "based on politics, not science." A lawsuit was filed against the Trump administration after they ruled to strip protections for gray wolves in the lower-48 states under the Endangered Species Act except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, National Parks Conservation Associat...

Lisa Pohlmann. (Photo courtesy Belfast Free Library) Thursday Jan. 21, at 6:30p.m., the Belfast Free Library and Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition will co-host a virtual program on Zoom with Lisa Pohlmann, executive director, and Melanie Sturm, director of Forests and Wildlife, of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, on their work to Protect Maine’s Forests and Wildlife. To register for this presentation please go to belfastlibrary.org/virtual-programs and follow the link. Lisa Pohlmann is the CEO of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), Maine’s leading environmental advocacy or...