USFWS Announces Wyoming Gray Wolf Recovered and Gives Management to the State
Gray Wolf (Credit: Gary Kramer, USFWS) On August 31, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced that the Wyoming population of gray wolves is recovered and will be removed from federal...
View ArticleNew NPS Science Report Focuses on Environmental Change
(Credit: NPS) The National Park Service (NPS) Advisory Board released a report August 28th on the goals of resource management in the National Park System. “Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship...
View ArticleRegional Forest Monitoring Program begins in Congo-basin Rainforest
Epulu River in the Ituri area, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Source: J. Doremus, USAID) On July 16 The Central Africa Forests Commission (COMIFAC) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization...
View ArticleMore than $29 Million to Expand Refuge System, Conserve Bird Habitat
Lesser scaup (Credit: Gary Kramer, USFWS) On September 12th, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe announced that the Migratory Bird Conservation...
View ArticleInterior Announces New Refuge in Colorado
The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, seen here from the Great Sand Dunes National Park, are the backbone of a proposed conservation area announced Friday (Credit: NPS) Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar...
View ArticleCanadian Environment Minister Wants to Reform the Species At Risk Act
Caribou in Western Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba (Credit: Joy Viola, Northeastern University) Late last week, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that he wants to begin reforming the...
View ArticleTWS Update: Continuing Resolution includes a boost for Wildfire Management...
CalFire and US Fish & Wildlife Service Engine 58 crew implement a progressive hoselay to protect the community of Spring Valley from the Jamacha Fire burning on the San Diego National Wildlife...
View ArticleSenate Subcommittee Releases Draft Interior Appropriations Bill
Recovery work at Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge (Credit: USFWS) The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on September 25 released...
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