NewsRack: 'Endangered Species' news in 'Biodiversity-Regional' topic for user flenvcenter

Aggressive tiger muskies being reintroduced to Western Slope anglers	19.5.2013	Denver Post: Outdoors
SILT — It's not the size of the dog in the fight, they say. It's the size of the fight in the dog.
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It's Endangered Species Day!	17.5.2013	High Country News Most Recent
40 years on and the ESA continues to have growing pains
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Grizzlies back from the brink?	10.5.2013	From the Blogs
Now there’s a plan in case they are delisted
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Routt County Commissioners approve new oil well permit despite concerns that grouse are reaching tipping point	8.5.2013	Steamboat Pilot
“I think it’s really bad business that it needs to be done at the cost of driving sage grouse into extinction,” commissioner Tim Corrigan said just before approving Entek’s special-use permit to drill a new well in North Routt County.
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Wildlife authorities remove owlets from Colorado Springs neighborhood	8.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Wildlife authorities remove owlets from Colorado Springs neighborhood
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New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell waiting for study on wild horses	8.5.2013	Denver Post: All Political News
New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Tuesday that she is still undecided about how to handle a burgeoning wild horse and burro population that is eating more than half the horse budget at the BLM and sparking outrage among wild horse advocates.
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Utah’s oil shale, tar sands in for a bumpy ride	8.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 7, 2013 05:12PM MDT Eastern Utah might be blessed with abundant oil shale and tar sands, but getting those “unconventional” hydrocarbons out of the ground, processed and delivered to market still face financial, technical and regulatory obstacles, according to speakers Tuesday at a University of Utah energy conference. And that’s not to mention activist push back, which conference goers got to experience when a small group of well-attired demonstrators briefly commandeered the conference during a keynote by Juan P... ...
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Rare beetle getting more room to roam at Coral Pink Sand Dunes	4.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 06:47PM MDT State and federal officials are expanding conservation zones in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes to further protect a rare beetle, narrowing the portion of the dunes available to off-road vehicles. Announced Friday, the move is hoped to secure additional habitat for the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The agency is to decide by the end of September whether to list the beetle as threatened. Such a ... ...
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Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list	4.5.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
HONOLULU—A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to remove northern Pacific humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the population has steadily grown since the international community banned commercial whaling nearly 50 years ago.
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$300,000 for nothing	2.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 2, 2013 01:01AM MDT Re “Federal officials could lift protections for gray wolves” (Tribune, April 27): Since it is a foregone conclusion that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list nationwide (it almost never significantly changes a draft rule once made public), our state doesn’t have to give the $300,000 appropriated by the Legislature to Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife or Big Game Forever to lobby in Washington, D.C., to get the government to delist the wolf ... ...
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Short takes on issues	27.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Apr 27, 2013 01:01AM MDT A flawed plan • Gov. Gary Herbert doesn’t want the federal government getting between energy developers and sage grouse in Utah. So he has come up with a plan to protect sage grouse habitat that he says should satisfy the feds and prevent them from adding the unique bird to its endangered species list. But the plan has serious flaws. It designates 11 sage grouse conservation areas covering about 7.5 million acres. That’s good. But it would set up a “mitigation bank” to allow developers to purcha... ...
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Draft rule ends protections for gray wolves	27.4.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
BILLINGS, Mont.—Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range.
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Federal protection of Utah prairie dogs prompt lawsuit	19.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 18, 2013 04:59PM MDT Bruce Hughes owns a 3.4-acre lot on the west side of Cedar City that he has hoped to develop into commercial real estate for years. But the presence of a protected rodent on the land makes it impossible for him and many others in Iron County to get building permits, rendering their land unusable and worthless, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Salt Lake City. In the mid-2000s when Hughes first proposed building on West View Drive, there were 58 prairie dogs on the propert... ...
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Changing of the guard at the Department of Interior	16.4.2013	High Country News Most Recent
A look back and a look ahead as Ken Salazar hands the reins to Sally Jewell.
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Brazilian team finds new porcupine species	11.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Jenny Barchfield The Associated Press Published Apr 10, 2013 10:20PM MDT Rio de Janeiro • A new species of tree-dwelling porcupine has been discovered in Brazil’s Northeastern Atlantic Forest, one of the world’s most threatened habitats, researchers said. Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes said his team found the rodent, which is covered in dark brown spines with reddish tips, in a small and isolated patch of forest in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. With just 2 percent of the region’s original forest habitat still standing, the newly discovered porcupine must alrea... ...
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Box Elder adopts state’s first sage grouse plan	10.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 10, 2013 11:43AM MDT Brigham City • Poisoning ravens, pulling out pinyon and juniper, controlling noxious cheat grass and fire prevention are the hallmarks of a pilot program the Box Elder Commission endorsed Tuesday in a formal bid to forestall listing of the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. Commissioners unveiled the plan in a packed meeting room in Brigham City’s historic courthouse where federal, state and local officials showered praise on this effort. The plan makes little reference to ov... ...
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Swanky beach enclave seeks relief from bird stench	8.4.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
SAN DIEGO—La Jolla's jagged coastline is strictly protected by environmental laws to ensure the San Diego community remains the kind of seaside jewel that has attracted swanky restaurants, top-flight hotels and some of the nation's rich and famous, including billionaire businessman Irwin Jacobs and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Northeast drilling boom threatens forest wildlife	3.4.2013	azcentral.com \| business
PITTSBURGH -- Hawks swoop in and gobble up songbirds. Raccoons feast on nests of eggs they never could have reached before. Salamanders and wildflowers fade away, crowded out by invasive plants that are altering the soil they need to thrive. Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.
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Green River has ‘catch and kill’ order for pike, 2 other species	2.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brett Prettyman The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 1, 2013 03:52PM MDT A new fishing regulation requiring anglers to “catch and kill” three species on the world famous Blue Ribbon Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam appears to have come just in time. Northern pike, a nonnative species that found its way into the Green from the Yampa River system in Colorado where the fish were introduced, have been spotted on the river for decades, but they have never been more prevalent than now. “You hear stories about people occasionally catching them, but it seems like from rep... ...
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Commissioners approve agreement, comments to FWS	31.3.2013	Telluride: News
The San Miguel County Board of Commissioners took two more steps Wednesday toward protecting local populations of a ground bird with speckled plumage.
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