Wolves Belong

Dec 12, 2024 | Wildlife

As morning light arrives just behind the hills of Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, a distant song greets the gathering crowd. A hundred determined watchers bearing scopes and their trusty cameras line one plateau and another, eager to catch their first...

Wolverines listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act after 20-year conservation effort

Nov 29, 2023 | News Release, Victory! ESA Protection for Wolverine

Today, after more than 20 years of advocacy by wildlife conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) found that wolverines warrant federal protections as a threatened species. Numbering only about 300 in the contiguous U.S., snow-dependent...

Federal wildlife-killing program challenged in Montana

Jan 18, 2023 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears, Wildlife

Today, four conservation organizations challenged the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Wildlife Services predator killing program in Montana. The legal challenge also includes the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for approving the program’s killing and...

Wildlife advocates challenge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that fails endangered Mexican gray wolves

Oct 3, 2022 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, wildlife advocates filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for its failure to adopt an adequate management rule for recovering the critically endangered population of Mexican gray wolves as required by the Endangered Species Act. The...

BLOCKBUSTER: Judge restores gray wolf protections, reviving federal recovery efforts

Feb 10, 2022 | Nationwide Wolf Delisting, News Release

Today, a federal court restored Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf after they were eliminated by the Trump administration in 2020. The ruling orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to resume recovery efforts for the imperiled species. Today’s...

Conservation groups relieved protections will remain for 3.4 million acres of critical northern spotted owl habitat

Nov 9, 2021 | News Release, Northern Spotted Owl

Conservation groups in the Pacific Northwest have expressed relief that a final rule issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Fish and Wildlife) will reinstate federal protections for old-growth forests, forests essential for the survival of the northern spotted...

Mexican wolves see improved but imperfect management rule

Oct 27, 2021 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a new rule for managing the recovery of endangered Mexican gray wolves. In a major improvement for lobos, the wild population would no longer be arbitrarily capped at 320 wolves. And the Service would have more...

VICTORY! Restoring Gray Wolf Protections Nationwide

Apr 8, 2021 | Wildlife

VICTORY! Restoring Gray Wolf Protections Nationwide Wolves belong. They were here for millennia before settlers nearly succeeded in eradicating them from the so-called “New World.” Always survivors, wolves held on, narrowly staving off extinction and...

Preventing Northern Spotted Owl Extinction

Apr 8, 2021 | Wildlife

Preventing Northern Spotted Owl Extinction Federally designated critical habitat is just that — critical to the survival of imperiled plants and animals, and protected to aid in recovery of the species. For the northern spotted owl, an icon of the Pacific Northwest...

Conservation groups ask court to reinstate protections on 3.4 million acres of critical northern spotted owl habitat

Mar 23, 2021 | News Release, Northern Spotted Owl

Conservation groups in the Pacific Northwest filed a legal challenge to reinstate federal protections on more than 3.4 million acres of federal old-growth forests, which are essential for the survival of the threatened northern spotted owl. The lawsuit asks the court...