New York youth wins National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest
USFWS Reports
April 22, 2019
Pennsylvania youth finishes third in the annual competition.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. agency reconsidering status of bistate sage grouse
Associated Press
April 15, 2019
Announces it will reopen the public comment period and reconsider whether to protect the grouse under the Endangered Species Act.
From the headlines to the backcountry: Rare Canada lynx returned to Michigan wild
Michigan DNR
April 15, 2019
“A once-in-a-career opportunity in the state of Michigan just took place.”
Ohio gets smaller share of excise tax dollars
Jeff Frischkorn
April 10, 2019
While hardly a drop in the bucket, Ohio’s share of federal aid dollars in the form of tax receipts from sales of hunting and fishing licenses and a few other sources do not stack up
Survey: More Mexican gray wolves roaming southwestern U.S.
Associated Press
April 10, 2019
Agency officials declared progress for the endangered species in New Mexico and Arizona, saying there are at least 131 wolves in the wild in the two states. That represents a 12% jump in the population.
U.S. eases land restrictions meant to protect sage grouse in West
Associated Press
March 19, 2019
The changes by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will guide future efforts to conserve the ground-dwelling birds that range across portions of 11 Western states.
U.S. plans to lift protections for gray wolves
Associated Press
March 12, 2019
The government first proposed revoking the wolf’s protected status across the Lower 48 states in 2013, but backed off after federal courts struck down its plan for “delisting” the species in the western Great Lakes
Major U.S. oil, gas lease-sale land includes important sage grouse habitat, big-game migration corridors
Associated Press
March 4, 2019
Disputed sale in Wyoming nets $88 million. Wyoming officials say they will implement state plans to protect sage grouse and migrating game, such as mule deer and antelope, should oil and gas development proceed in
Ambitious new plan to save Atlantic salmon has big price tag
Associated Press
February 19, 2019
The plan would take decades to fully implement, and it focuses on strategies such as removals of dams, installations of fish passages and increasing the number of salmon that survive in the ocean. It states
