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Sage-Grouse Decision Announced
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Friday, March 5, that the greater sage-grouse will be added to the Endangered Species Act “Candidate” list. Find high-resolution greater sage-grouse photos, range maps, broadcast-quality footage, fact sheets, and more information here.
Wolves in Colorado
Researchers believe they have found evidence of wolves on a ranch in western Colorado. We will know for sure once results come back from the DNA analysis currently being run on scat samples found on the ranch.
Read the full High Country News article, Prodigal Dogs: Have gray wolves found a home in Colorado? by Michelle Nijhuis.
Conservation Groups Join State Agency To Offer $5,800 Reward For Information on Killing of Canada Lynx
Second illegal killing in five months
Forest Service to study lynx-human interactions in the Vail Pass rec area
Skiers and snowmobilers will be asked to wear GPS units
Uranium Mining Lawsuit Gets a Boost as Judge Unlocks Fed’s Records
A ruling handed down in federal court Thursday has significantly bolstered a legal challenge to the revival of uranium mining on public lands in Colorado and beyond.
Researchers Discover 13,000 Year Old Shrub in California
A 75 foot-wide specimen of Palmer’s oak in the Jurupa hills of Riverside County has been growing since the end of the last Ice Age. It’s 1,000 years older than a previously identified Palm Springs creosote bush that was thought to be the oldest plant in California, 8,000 years older than bristlecone pines and 10,000 years older than the redwoods.
Lynx in New Mexico Warrant Listing But Remain in Legal Limbo
Feds Cite “Higher Priorities” As Excuse Not to Protect Wild Cat
West Vail Pass Chosen as Site for International Wildlife Crossing Design Competition
West Vail Pass has been selected as the site for an international competition among teams of architects, engineers, planners and others to design a wildlife crossing structure over Interstate 70.
Colorado Chosen as Site to Showcase Wildlife Crossing Designs of the Future
Competition Challenges Design Teams to Reweave Landscape for Wildlife in a Cost-effective Manner Using New Methods, New Materials, and New Thinking.
Colorado and New Mexico Announce Wildlife Corridor Initiative
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter today joined New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in announcing a new initiative to identify and protect key wildlife travel and migration corridors between the two states.
Union of Concerned Scientists Report: BLM prevented listing of an endangered plant, promoted oil shale development in its habitat
From 7/10/09 Union of Concerned Scientists report: In May 2006, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provided a misleading scientific analysis of the location of anticipated oil and gas drilling activities and misrepresented the threat of future oil shale development to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The BLM’s analysis was successful at stopping the FWS from protecting a rare wildflower under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Canada Lynx Named One of America’s Hottest Species
New report names Canada lynx as one of America’s top ten endangered species impacted by global warming.
New listings wait as Obama admin charts new course
So far, President Obama’s Fish and Wildlife Service has offered protection to two U.S. species, both plants, out of nearly 250 on Endangered Species Act’s “candidates” list.
5000 New Deep Sea Species Discovered
It’s a little far afield from Center for Native Ecosystems’ geographic focal area, but this is major news in the biodiversity community. Listen to a BBC news report chronicling the recent findings of the ten-year International Census of Marine Life, due to be complete in 2010.
Wolverine settles in Colorado; more may follow
State wildlife biologists say they think M56, the solo male wolverine that migrated more than 500 miles to Colorado from Wyoming last spring, appears to have settled in at the snowy edge of Rocky Mountain National Park, raising hopes for the survival of the species and other threatened carnivores.