Issues Chairman Bishop talks ESA this week. Laying out his priorities for the 2017 Congress, House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop spoke to Politico Pro and E&E News this week regarding his plans for the Endangered Species Act. Chairman Bishop [...]
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 **NOTE: IPAA has released a new one-pager to provide members and ESA Watch readers a brief summary of the Endangered Species Act. Check out the new fact sheet HERE. Lesser prairie chicken officially removed from endangered species list. The [...]
Issues Nevada Attorney General, counties allege sage grouse protections were politically driven. Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has joined with nine Nevada counties, ranchers, and miners in their third lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the federal government's sage grouse [...]
Issues Lesser Prairie Chicken Population Increases Again. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), the group tasked with overseeing the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range-wide Conservation Plan, released its second annual report this week. The report indicated the prairie chicken's [...]
Issues BLM has yet to craft sage grouse policies for oil and gas lease sales. As highlighted in news reports this week, five months after Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the federal government had found a way to balance drilling [...]
Issues IPAA files intent to sue over American burying beetle. The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), alongside fellow petitioners the American Stewards of Liberty, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Steven W. Carothers, notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]
Issues FWS publishes 4(d) rule for northern long-eared bat. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a final 4(d) rule establishing guidelines for human interaction with the threatened northern long-eared bat (NLEB). The bat’s population has declined in [...]