Issues The Migratory Bird Treaty Act should be updated. A recent column in the Casper Star-Tribune by IPAA Senior Vice President of Government Relations & Political Affairs Dan Naatz and Petroleum Association of Wyoming Vice President Esther Wagner highlights an [...]
Issues Administration calls for review and comment on Mitigation. This morning, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a notice in the Federal Register calling for public review and comment on its Service-wide Mitigation Policy and its Endangered Species Act [...]
Issues Department of Interior makes sweeping changes to sage-grouse conservation and management plans. The Interior Department lifted a mining ban on Greater sage-grouse habitat in Western states this week, “formally nixing a nearly two-year environmental impact statement evaluating the withdrawal [...]
Weekly Newsletter May 25, 2017 Issues Lesser prairie chicken finding expected soon. The lesser prairie chicken is up for debate again, with a 12-month finding from the Fish and Wildlife Service expected this fall on whether or not a listing [...]
Issues ESA reform underway on the Hill. This week, E&E News took a look at Endangered Species Act (ESA) reform efforts being prepared in Washington, including some of the key players and actions to look for. The ESA has not [...]
Issues Zinke signs new order revoking Obama era mitigation policies. In a secretarial order on “American Energy Independence," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke revoked the department’s policy on offsetting the impacts of development on natural resources and has ordered a review [...]
Issues Rusty patched bumble bee listing now in effect. The endangered listing of the rusty patched bumble bee (RPBB) went into effect this week. While the RPBB was listed in January, the listing did not immediately take effect due to [...]
Issues ASL and IPAA file Notice of Intent regarding American burying beetle. This week, the American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America filed a Notice of Intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [...]