Issues FWS Extends Bald and Golden Eagle Programmatic Take Rule Permit. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has issued a final rule to extend the duration of programmatic bald and golden eagle take permits from five years to 30 [...]
Issues House Committee on Natural Resources Holds ESA Hearing. This week, the House Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight hearing on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) titled “ESA Decisions by Closed-Door Settlement: Short-Changing Science, Transparency, Private Property, and State [...]
Issues FWS Announces Extension of Comment Period for the Northern Long-Eared Bat. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced the extension of the comment period for the Northern Long-Eared Bat. On October 2, 2013, the FWS proposed [...]
Issues Western Energy Alliance Sends Letter to Sec. Jewell on Greater Sage-Grouse (GSG). This week, the Western Energy Alliance sent a letter to Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Sally Jewell regarding the proposed listing of the Greater sage-grouse under [...]
Issues No ESA Listing for Gunnison’s Prairie Dog. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced the Gunnison’s prairie dog does not warrant listing under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). According to the FWS announcement in the [...]
Issues Coloradoans Concerned With Potential Sage Grouse Listing. In Colorado, commissioners from Garfield, Mesa, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties have called on Governor Hickenlooper to intervene in the Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to list the greater sage grouse under [...]
The Western Energy Alliance has released a video on how oil and natural gas companies are producing energy while protecting our natural environment and wildlife. The video features Brian Maxfield, Senior Biologist with the Utah Department of Natural Resources talking [...]
Issues Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Intervention Granted. This week, two motions to intervene in the proposed listing of the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) were granted. The motions were brought by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of [...]