Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
For years, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has disregarded empirically based calculations of population size that call for thousands of wolves to maintain a viable population. Instead, they preferred to point to anecdotal "case histories" of small, isolated populations...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Those of you who have been following the situation with wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains know that NRDC, along with a coalition of groups, has sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service over their flawed plan to remove endangered...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I've written before about the saga surrounding the Preble's meadow jumping mouse - from political interference to mixed up lab samples - this little mouse with giant feet and a long tail has had a rough ride. And the final...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today the Secretary of the Interior affirmed a Bush administration push to delist wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains. This decision is obviously a great disappointment to those of us who have worked so hard to make sure that wolves...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There is a rule in the children's game that when Mr. Wolf calls out "Midnight!" all the players run back to their starting point. Only this midnight rule is no game. With their eyes on the ticking clock, the Fish...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Well, here we go again. It was just last week that a judge handed US Fish and Wildlife Service's failed delisting rule back to them and returned endangered species protections to wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains. I hoped optimistically that...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon
Today a federal judge agreed to allow the federal government to withdraw their delisting proposal and reinstate endangered species protections to wolves in the northern Rockies. After evaluating the judge's injunction decision from July, the US Fish and Wildlife Service...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but in its last throes, the Bush administration has been launching an all out attack on the Endangered Species Act. This is on top of its consistent chiseling over the years which has led...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday in the mail I received a letter from an 8 year old boy named Ben. He had chosen to study the gray wolf for his school’s endangered species fair only to find out that the wolves in the Rocky...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today the Fish and Wildlife Service formally issued one of those decisions that makes you stop and scratch your head. They have decided to remove endangered species protections from the threatened Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse where it occurs in...continued→
