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Feds Give Polar Bears ESA Protection
Opinion -The U.S. Department of the Interior, on the advice of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has decided to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. -
Media Advisory: Polar Bear Decision Defies Scientific Evidence
Opinion -(Chicago, IL -- May 14, 2008) The U.S. Department of the Interior decided today to list polar bears as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act. -
Federal Government Continues to Weigh ESA Listing of Polar Bears
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has postponed a decision on whether to list polar bears as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. -
Appeals Court Will Rule on Oregon Salmon Plan
Opinion -The state of Oregon's determination that Oregon coast coho salmon no longer require Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection is headed for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. -
ESA Listing Not Needed for Polar Bears
Opinion -Despite healthy polar bear populations upwards of 20,000 bears worldwide, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced on December 27 the Bush administration's plan to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. -
DDT Did Not Harm Eagles
Opinion -While it is wonderful that the bald eagle will be taken off the Endangered Species list, many media reports repeated the fiction that the ban on DDT use in the U.S. was a major factor in the species' recovery. -
Montana, Wyoming Challenge Federal Wolf Policies
Opinion -The gray wolf population has reached sufficient numbers in the northern Rocky Mountains to justify its removal from the endangered species list, say federal wildlife officials. -
Mouse that Cost Economy $100 Million May Never Have Existed
Opinion -After six years of Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations and restrictions that have cost builders, local governments, and landowners on the western fringe of the Great Plains as much as $100 million by some estimates, new research suggests the -
Wyoming, Feds Clash on Gray Wolf Delisting
Opinion -An anticipated delisting of gray wolves from Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection was put on hold January 12 after the U.S. -
Colorado: Saving the Animals, Not the Bureaucrats
Opinion -When the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed in 1973, it represented the best intentions of man to fix mistakes of the past. -
Suckers for junk science?
Opinion -On May 12, 2002, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published a Federal Register notice rejecting petitions I had filed to remove from the Endangered Species List two species of sucker fish found in the Klamath Basin. -
The prairie dogs that weren’t there
Opinion -There is no evidence that Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) employees who charged Lin Drake of Cedar City, Utah with violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) ever heard this poem: “Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. -
Arizona community averts repeat of Klamath disaster
Opinion -In the spring of 2001, after drought conditions reduced the amount of water available in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, a federal judge ruled 1,400 farms would go without irrigation water, saying the Endangered Species Act (ESA) gave threatened and -
Gov’t researchers caught planting false ESA evidence
Opinion -Congressmen from western states called on the federal government to mount an investigation after government researchers were caught planting false evidence of endangered species in national forests. The fraud was discovered when a U.S. -
Is Legal Marijuana on the Horizon?
Opinion -1 Europe Goes to Pot: Great Britain, EU Abandon Marijuana Prohibition UK officials branded marijuana prohibition an endangered species in 2001, announcing in October that police would no longer arrest individuals for marijuana possession, and that -
Greens undermine America’s military
Opinion -"Endangered species has power to halt war training" was the headline on an article in an October 2000 edition of the Washington Times. -
ESA blamed for firefighter deaths
Opinion -An investigation into the July 10 "30-mile fire" in central Washington state has uncovered that the Endangered Species Act (ESA) played a central role in the deaths of four young firefighters combating the blaze. The U.S. -
Environmentalists seek ESA protection for local orcas
Opinion -Anti-logging and anti-commercial fishing advocacy groups on May 1 petitioned the federal government to grant endangered species status to a group of Pacific Northwest orcas known as the “southern residents. -
NEWS-NEWS-NEWS
Opinion -Moratorium angers environmentalists Last November, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a moratorium on new listings of alleged endangered species, saying their resources were being drained fighting lawsuits from environmental groups. -
Okanogan County irrigators sue federal government for water rights
Opinion -A coalition of county officials, farmers, and ranchers in Okanogan County, Washington, announced on February 5 their intention to sue the federal government for unlawfully trying to use the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to cut off water rights protected -
Federal government allows pollution dumping into Potomac River
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DC—On October 11, 2000 the National Wilderness Institute (NWI) announced its intention to file a lawsuit charging that several federal agencies are violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) through their improper operation of the -
The National Biological Service and Weasels
Opinion -“The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) was a charter member of endangered species lists for North America long before the passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973,” wrote Dean Biggins and Jerry Godbey for the National Biological Service’s 1995 -
Noah’s Ark for the new millennium
Opinion -The House Resources Committee held a field hearing in 1999 in Hemet, California, to hear southern California citizens describe the way the Endangered Species Act is enforced by the federal agencies whose “real agenda [is] to stop growth, eliminate -
Shooting a Grizzly in Self-Defense
Opinion -Created by Congress in 1973 to protect imperiled animal and plant species, the Endangered Species Act remains a well intentioned but confusing law that leaves environmentalists and developers baffled.
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