Endangered Species List
The State of Wyoming – on behalf of Governor Mark Gordon – has filed a petition for judicial review in the Wyoming Federal District Court. The lawsuit alleges the Department of Interior failed to meet the 12-month deadline for determining Wyoming’s petition to delist the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Because of…
Grizzlies could lose their protected status as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is examining the merits of three petitions requesting the bears be removed from the Endangered Species List. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a finding stating that removing federal protections from grizzly bear populations in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental…
The current status of the American bison is “it’s complicated,” as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces a twelve-month endangered species status review. On Monday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it is conducting a review of the conservation status of the plains bison – the specific species of bison native to the…
Wyoming Game and Fish’s annual gray wolf management report reaffirms that Wyoming has gone above and beyond recovery parameters for the gray wolf in the state. Wyoming Game and Fish has published its 2021 Wyoming Gray Wolf Monitoring and Management annual report. Once again, the department emphasizes that Wyoming wolves are fully recovered and beyond…
Governor Gordon is asking the U.S. government to remove the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species List and transfer population management to the states. Fulfilling a promise made in September, Governor Mark Gordon has officially petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (F.W.S.) to remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (G.Y.E.) population of grizzly bears from…
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