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Great Lakes Echo

From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation

From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation
6 min read

By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva

In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies and bats to bald eagles and river otters. That story is now told in detail by Carrol Henderson in his new book, “A National Legacy: Fifty Years of Nongame Wildlife Conservation in Minnesota.”

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Clean Technica

Could American “Spirited Self-Determination” Reshape Energy?

Could American “Spirited Self-Determination” Reshape Energy?
10 min read

How a Decades-Long Partnership Is Unearthing Answers to That and Other Electric Questions By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR In 2023, four members of Schneider Electric’s Global Research Team were touring a facility at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, when one looked into a warehouse-sized lab … [continued]

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Clean Technica

380,000+ Oppose Trump Administration Effort to Roll Back Endangered Species Act Protections

380,000+ Oppose Trump Administration Effort to Roll Back Endangered Species Act Protections
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Proposed rules would undermine nation’s most successful conservation law Washington D.C. — More than 380,000 Americans, including 17,000 Sierra Club supporters, submitted comments in opposition to a set of proposed rules from the Trump administration that would roll back protections for imperiled animal and plant species across the United States and undermine … [continued]

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