Showing posts with label Endangered Species Act (ESA). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Endangered Species Act (ESA). Show all posts
January 1, 2017

Obama’s public lands policy leaves legacy of conflict

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Push to control state lands at odds with locals Interior Secretary Sally Jewell looks from Dead Horse Point, near Moab, Utah, where Presiden...
January 10, 2016

The Larger, but Quieter Than Bundy, Push to Take Over Federal Land

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Duane Ehmer riding his horse, Hellboy, last week at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., where an armed group of antigov...
June 27, 2015

Endangered Amargosa voles return to Mojave Desert

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University of California, Davis veterinary professor Janet Foley holds an Amargosa vole in Shoshone, Calif. Twelve endangered voles were s...
March 13, 2015

Desert tortoise gets 7,400 acres

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Biologist Jeff Valentine, working for BrightSource, walks back to his truck just outside the gates of the BrightSource solar project in 2011...
March 10, 2015

Desert plan shifts focus to public land

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Federal and state officials put plans for privately owned land on the back burner. Larry LaPre, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Bureau of...
October 10, 2014

Las Vegas ‘tortoise gulag’ paroles last inmates

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A desert tortoise crawls free after being released into the desert near Primm on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The Desert Tortoises Conservation ...
July 14, 2014

Pet desert tortoises need homes

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There's no place to take unwanted desert tortoises, a reptile that is endangered in the wild. Yet desert tortoises can’t simply be put...
June 27, 2014

Group Will Sue to Block 'Evisceration' of Endangered Species Act

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A new policy would make it nearly impossible to add new species to the Endangered list until it might be too late for them. (Photo: Jane W...
June 22, 2014

The grand compromise: The search for a public lands resolution

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A possible solution to the bickering over land use in a big chunk of Utah is being negotiated with all varieties of groups at the table unde...
June 4, 2014

Delist desert tortoise

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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL EDITORIAL B eing a desert tortoise truther these days can’t be an easy job. For more than two decades, the she...
May 30, 2014

How the Mojave ranchers were wiped out for the sake of desert tortoise

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The Mojave desert tortoise was declared an endangered species in 1989, and cattle were deemed a danger to them Most ranchers left, unable t...
May 13, 2014

New Mexico county defies U.S. government over cattle grazing

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BY JOSEPH KOLB Reuters ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - A rural New Mexico county has voted to defy the federal government and give a rancher...
April 24, 2014

Guarding against overreach of the Endangered Species Act

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Sue McCrum Drovers Cattle Network R ecently there have been media reports that have highlighted the dangerous overreach of the Endangered...
April 21, 2014

Environmentalists pushed Bundy ranch standoff over endangered [sic] tortoises

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A helicopter takes off from a staging area of BLM vehicles and other government vehicles off of Riverside Road near Bunkerville, Nevada ov...
April 7, 2014

Glamis Dunes: Judge rejects lawsuit, opening new areas to off-roaders

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Additional areas of the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, known as Glamis, will be opened to off-roaders this fall. (AP) By Janet Zim...
February 26, 2014

Feds Declare 2 Endangered Death Valley National Park Plants Recovered

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Eureka Valley evening primrose (USFWS/Flickr/Creative Commons License) by Chris Clarke KCET.org T wo plants found only in Death Vall...