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This July 16, 2004, photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. The Biden administration said Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, that federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-backed state laws made it much easier to kill the predators. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella) **FILE***

Republicans howl as Biden administration reignites gray wolf dogfight

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 1, 2019, file photo, provided by the Center for Biological Diversity shows Tiehm's buckwheat blooming at Rhyolite Ridge in the Silver Peak Range of Western Nevada. A federal judge has given the Fish and Wildlife Service just 30 more days to make an overdue decision on whether to formally propose endangered species protection for a rare desert wildflower at the center of a fight of a proposed lithium mine in Nevada. Conservationists say the rare order issued Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Las Vegas underscores the critical condition of the Tiehm's buckwheat they say is on the brink of extinction. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity via AP, File)

Judge sets deadline for rare Nevada plant-listing decision

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

In this 2019 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. Grizzly bears are slowly expanding in the northern Rocky Mountains but scientists say they need continued protections and have concluded no other areas of the country would be suitable for the fearsome animals. The Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, released its first assessment in almost a decade on the status of grizzly bears in the contiguous U.S. (Joe Lieb/USFWS via AP)

Scientists: Grizzlies expand turf but still need protection

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish shows a peppered chub. The U.S, Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the small minnow-like fish as an endangered species and designate parts of rivers in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico as its critical habitat. The agency on Tuesday Dec. 1, 2020, published the proposal in the Federal Register. (New Mexico Department of Game and Fish via AP)

Peppered chub proposed by agency as endangered species

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Wildlife Service Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

President Trump protects our heritage with Great American Outdoors Act

By Aurelia Skipwith

Washington Republican asks feds to reopen wildlife refuges

Associated Press

Correction: Trump-Trophy Hunting story

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Illustration of the Mississippi Gopher Frog by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Government overreach is at center of Weyerhaeuser v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service

By Henry I. Miller

Congress backs bill to lift Obama limits on Alaska hunting

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Polar bears are not disappearing as some scientists have projected, research shows. (Associated Press/File)

Polar bear conservation group blasts Obama admin’s climate-change alarmism

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

At Blackwater refuge, rising sea levels drown habitat

By SCOTT DANCE - Associated Press

This March 1, 2010 photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a bistate distinct population of the greater sage grouse, rear, as he struts for a female at a lek, or mating ground, near Bridgeport, Calif. A bird found only in California and Nevada no longer faces the threat of extinction and doesn't require federal protection, officials said just months before a more-sweeping decision is due on whether to declare other sage grouse threatened or endangered in 11 Western states. (Jeannie Stafford/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

Sally Jewell, interior secretary, leaves bi-state Mono Basin sage grouse off Endangered Species List

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The government declaring the northern long-eared bat a threatened species runs afoul of energy lobbies concerned that protecting its habitat will disturb resource development. (Associated Press)

Obama bat protection decried as ploy to thwart oil and gas extraction, logging

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In a sharp rebuke to a report from the Department of the Interior, a coalition of Western states is challenging its conclusions that human activity has led to widespread reduction in the Greater sage-grouse's population, not human activity. An attorney working the case described "extensive flaws in the agencies' science." (Associated Press)

Western states coalition opposes listing sage-grouse as endangered

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - This July, 26, 2014 file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Greater Sage Grouse at the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. A legislative rider in Congress' $1.1 trillion spending bill would delay protections for the wide-ranging Western bird that's been on a collision course with the oil and gas industry. The Obama administration faced a September 2015 deadline to propose protections for greater sage grouse. But the spending package agreed to late Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 by Democrat and Republican leaders prevents the administration from spending any money next year on rules to protect the ground-dwelling bird. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tom Koerner, File) **FILE**

Senate Democrats grouse over passage of sage-grouse rider

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A pro-hunting group is up in arms after obtaining emails that it says indicate that a federal official withheld critical data on lead blood levels in the California condor until after gun control advocates in the California state legislature used the iconic bird's plight to help push through a law last year to ban lead ammunition. (Associated Press)

Lead ammunition ban passed after feds withheld key data, hunters group says

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This June 2014 released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. Researchers are trying to get a better handle on the size of the Pacific walrus population ahead of an expected decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on whether the animals need special protections. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Earthjustice sues feds to save walruses from Arctic oil drilling

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

It this photo made Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, a two-headed snapping turtle sits on a rock in Hudson, Maine. Kathleen Talbot, of Hudson, found the baby reptile earlier in the week while she was watching hatchlings cross the road to make sure they arrived safely at the other side. (AP Photo/WLBZ-TV, Dan Frye) ** FILE **

Fish and Wildlife seeks federal protections for snapping turtles

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 25, 2013 photo, a grizzly bear cub forages for food a few miles from the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont. The number of threatened grizzly bears killed in and around Yellowstone National Park has dropped sharply as officials consider lifting protections for the animals. State and federal wildlife officials were scheduled to meet Wednesday in Bozeman to review the bear's status. (AP Photo/Casper Star-Tribune, Alan Rogers) MANDATORY CREDIT

Fewer grizzly bears dying in Yellowstone area

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

Agreement to protect flower across Southeast

By RAY HENRY - Associated Press