Issues Endangered Species Act focus of House field hearing. This week, four members of the House Natural Resources Committee held a field hearing in Casper, Wyoming focusing on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the impact ESA listings have on [...]
Issues FWS and NOAA Fisheries Issue Final Rule Met with Strong Criticism. On August 23rd, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fisheries Service submitted for publication in the Federal Register a final [...]
Issues FWS Director Ashe in Hot Water. This week, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe in response to a management advisory from the Department of [...]
Issues Gunnison Sage Grouse Listing Delayed; Met with Cheers. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced its decision to delay its proposed listing of the Gunnison Sage Grouse by six months. The decision comes in the wake [...]
Issues FWS postpones decision on lesser prairie chicken. This week, federal wildlife officials decided to postpone making a final decision on whether to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision pushes [...]
Issues **ESA Watch website now live! Interested in viewing news regarding ESA regulations and comments, or miss one of our ESA newsletters? Visit IPAA’s new ESAWatch.org website. IPAA and others comment on proposed Gunnison sage-grouse listing. This week, the [...]
Issues FWS releases Greater Sage-grouse report. On Monday, March 25th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released a final report, a collaborative effort between state and federal agencies, aimed at guiding and evaluating Greater Sage-grouse conservation efforts. The report [...]
Issues IPAA sets the record straight on the Gunnison sage grouse. Last week, the New York Times ran an Op-Ed in support of listing the Gunnison sage grouse under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The piece was critical of [...]