by FSEEE | May 25, 2020 | Dispatch
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2546 by a vote of 231-183, sending the bill to the Senate in mid February. The Protecting America’s Wilderness Act would designate more than 1.3 million acres as wilderness at dozens of locations in Washington, Colorado...
by FSEEE | Nov 5, 2019 | Dispatch
We all know this about dogs—they’re serious sniffers. Now, biologists are putting that olfactory prowess to work to help save an endangered lizard in California. Blunt-nosed leopard lizards used to be common in the San Joaquin Valley. But their populations have...
by FSEEE | Sep 11, 2019 | Dispatch
Conservationists filed a lawsuit this week challenging a government ruling granting a water permit to a Canadian mining firm that wants to dig an open-pit copper and nickel mine in the Superior National Forest. The litigation claims the mine would threaten the...
by FSEEE | Jul 31, 2019 | Dispatch
A man who argues that all lands owned by the federal government should be sold is now in charge of the nation’s largest system of federal lands. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed an order this week naming William Perry Pendley, a former Reagan Administration...
by FSEEE | Jul 24, 2019 | Dispatch
Another 76 mountain goats have left the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state as wildlife managers continue their efforts to move the invasive ungulates to the North Cascade mountains. The animals were lifted by helicopter to staging areas on the peninsula, then...
