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On Wednesday, the Trump administration proposed changing the definition of "harm" in the bedrock environmental law, which ...
The Trump administration is seeking to redefine "harm" in the Endangered Species Act to exclude habitat modification to make it easier for developers to build.
The new rule would change how "harm" is defined under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Harm now includes damaging the places ...
The proposal would provide a loophole for industries looking to disturb the natural habitats of endangered species to make ...
West Coast counties joined with forest product companies Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s ...
Efforts to track northern spotted owl populations might be one of the latest casualties in the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts. In a press release issued Wednesday ...
Federal layoffs have created chaos for Northwest public lands, and a cascade of damaging environmental consequences appears ...
An emergency designation of 176,000 square miles of U.S. Forest Service land effectively rolls back environmental protections ...
Memos from the Trump administration are increasing pressure to cut more national forests for timber and forest health.
The barred owl removals would be among the largest ... They questioned if the shootings would help native populations of northern spotted owls, which have long been controversial because of ...
The writing is on the wall." Barred owls are not native to the U.S. west coast and are "crowding out its less aggressive relative, the northern spotted owl, in the Northwestern states," said NPR.
Ian Oliphant, a Vancouver Island University biology student, conducted the first survey in B.C. on the population of helminth ...