Tag: endangered species
Wisconsin successfully restores habitat for piping plovers after 49 years with no sightings
By Anna Wildman
A stretch of Lake Superior beach in northern Wisconsin will remain closed to the public next spring and summer with the hopes of luring back a nesting pair of endangered piping plovers, which were recently spotted there for the first time in nearly a half century.
Michigan may adopt grey wolf hunting season if federal protections are lifted
By Alexander Boesch
President Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of the Interior to consider removing the grey wolf from the federal Endangered Species List. If that happens, some Republican state lawmakers want Michigan to authorize a hunting and trapping season.
Trump Administration Further Guts Endangered Species Act Implementation With Two New Rules
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is finalizing two new regulations that will undermine the implementation of federal protections for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the nation’s cornerstone conservation law. One rule rescinds the longstanding blanket 4(d) rule, ending the practice of automatically extending key ESA protections from killing, injury, … [continued]
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Most of Minnesota’s gray wolf pups don’t survive first year, but population remains stable
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
Only about 30 percent of gray wolf pups survive their first year of life even though the wolf population in the region remains stable, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota.
Groups fight to keep 16,000 acres of national forest in Michigan road-free
That includes 3,915 acres in the Huron-Manistee National Forest, part of a U.S. Forest Service plan to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Michigan groups are urging people to comment before an Oct. 6 deadline.
