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Trump administration delays decision on federal protections for monarch butterflies

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President Donald Trump’s administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely despite years of warnings from conservationists that populations are shrinking.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced during the waning days of then-President Joe Biden’s term in December 2024 that the agency planned to add the backyard pollinator to the threatened species list by the end of 2025, calling the insect “iconic” and “cherished across North America.”

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Deer hunter out scouting discovers rare subtropical wood stork in central Wisconsin

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A rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin.
A hunter scouting for deer first sighted the bird on Aug. 10 in a remote section of the Mud Lake Wildlife Area in Columbia County, about 35 miles northeast of Madison, the state’s capital, said Horicon Marsh Bird Club President Jeff Bahls. The hunter snapped some photos of the stork and sent them to Bahls.

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Push to map Great Lakes bottom moves with legislation

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Two congressional representatives from Michigan – Republican Lisa McClain and Democrat Debbie Dingell – have re-introduced the Great Lakes Mapping Act.
The legislation would, according to an earlier introduction, allocate $200 million to map the Great Lakes bottoms by 2030. The bill would direct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct high-resolution mapping of the Great Lakes “to further understand the underwater environment of the Great Lakes’ lakebed,” per a Great Lakes Observing System release.

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Effort to block invasive carp into Lake Michigan gets blocked by politics

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has delayed a $1.2 billion project meant to keep invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan by at least several months, saying he’s worried President Trump might not cover the federal government’s share of the costs and that it would leave his state on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Illinois, Michigan, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been planning since 2020 to install a gantlet of technologies in the Des Plaines River near Joliet to deter carp from entering Lake Michigan.

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Monarch butterfly to be listed as threatened species

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U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision on Tuesday, Dec. 10 to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to add the butterfly to the threatened species list by the end of next year following an extensive public comment period.

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Court rules that Wisconsin Republicans improperly blocked conservation work

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The Wisconsin Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee can’t legally block conservation projects initiated by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration, the state Supreme Court ruled on July 5.
The decision marks a victory for Evers, whose relationship with Republican lawmakers has deteriorated since he took office in 2019.

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USFWS says lake sturgeon not endangered, allowing state management to continue

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Lake sturgeon don’t need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished.
The decision ends the Arizona-based Center of Biological Diversity’s petition filed in May 2018 asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list lake sturgeon as endangered or threatened. Such listings would make harvesting the fish illegal, but without them, popular sturgeon-harvest seasons in states such as Wisconsin and Michigan can continue.

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Groups file lawsuit to halt power line across Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge

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A coalition of groups filed a last-minute federal lawsuit seeking to stop plans to build the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line across a Mississippi River wildlife refuge.
American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest, and Dairyland Power Cooperative, Inc., want to build a 102-mile, 345-kilovolt line linking Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County. The cost is expected to top half a billion dollars. The utilities say the line would improve electrical reliability across the region.

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