Issues Bishop bill targets sage grouse. House Natural Resources Chairman Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced H.R. 527 last week, a bill to help state governors plan for greater sage-grouse conservation and preservation. Bishop’s legislation is a reintroduction of a bill [...]
Issues Trump's Supreme Court picks could reshape Endangered Species Act. President-elect Trump is set to nominate a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia early this year, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy are expected to retire before [...]
Issues FWS prepares to publish final Mitigation Policy. This morning, the Fish and Wildlife Service released its pre-publication notice for its Final Mitigation Policy, a policy framework for applying a landscape-scale approach to achieve “a net gain in conservation outcomes, [...]
Issues Key federal agency positions in the air after presidential election results. Predictions of who will fill key cabinet positions began to circulate this week following the announcement of Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election early Wednesday morning. Sarah [...]
Issues Federal officials reveal plan to protect sage-grouse habitat. On Monday the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Forest Service released a plan to combat destructive wildfires and restore sagebrush in the Great Basin. The plan supports Secretary of the Interior Sally [...]
Issues Court says species can be listed as threatened based on climate change projections. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the federal government may list a species as "threatened" based on climate models showing possible future [...]
Issues IPAA sends letter on NPS and FWS proposed rule. This week, IPAA and API submitted comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs regarding rules proposed by the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to regulate operations [...]
Issues Federal agencies finalize new rule on petition listing. On Monday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finalized a rule changing the process by which species are petitioned for listing, [...]