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FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, in Corvallis, Ore. U.S. wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls in coming decades as part of a controversial plan to help spotted owl populations. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

To save spotted owls, U.S. officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

A group of manatees are pictured in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dec. 28, 2010. Wildlife officials say a two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for both the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on which they depend. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Florida discontinues manatee winter feeding program after seagrass conditions improve

By Curt Anderson - Associated Press

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Invasive Carp Field Lead Kayla Stampfle inspects the components of a telemetry receiver that tracks tagged invasive carp in the Mississippi River near La Crosse, Wis. on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. The solar-powered receiver can transmit real-time notifications of the movements of tagged invasive carp. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

FILE - A female red wolf emerges from her den sheltering newborn pups at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C., on May 13, 2019. On Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, the U.S. government agreed to settle a lawsuit with conservation groups and commit to releasing more endangered red wolves into the wilds of North Carolina. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

U.S. commits to releasing more endangered red wolves into the wild, settling lawsuit

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

Ed Christopher, Deputy Fire Director at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, looks over the Four Guardsmen at the entrance to General Sherman at Sequoia National Park, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. The Four Guardsmen were wrapped by structure wrap to protect them from fires along with General Sherman. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

Watch ‘Top of the Times’: U.S. Fish & Wildlife goes woke

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 11, 2022. A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, April 26, 2023, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

SpaceX rocket launch causes massive fire at state park

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Martha Williams (center), director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, talks with Jimmy Laurent (left), regional energy coordinator for U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and Thomas Harris, secretary for the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, as they visit the B-5 orphan well site in the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Lottie, La., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Dozens of scientists from universities across the nation are challenging whether Williams has the education needed to run an agency in charge of managing endangered species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

Wokeness valued over mission for Fish and Wildlife Service

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, center, and Tim Seaman with the Rio Chama Acequia Association look on surveying the Rio Chama valley near Abiquiu, N.M., Aug. 31, 2021. Dozens of traditional irrigation systems that supply community farms, gardens and orchards in northern New Mexico won’t flow with water this spring. Rural officials tell state lawmakers Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, that it's a devastating consequence of a historic wildfire that the U.S. Forest Service sparked last year. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Wallowing in wokeism: Biden offers feds ‘ecogrief’ counseling for ‘emotional’ toll of climate change

By Staff

This photo provided by University of Georgia graduate research assistant Matt Phillips, shows research technician Hunter Rider of Opelika, Ala., holding a a lake sturgeon with its vacuum-hose-like mouth extended on the Coosa River, on July 14, 2022, at Rome, Ga. The university is making the largest population study of the fish since the state began restocking them in 2002. (Matt Phillips via AP)

Prehistoric fish may spawn in Georgia: 1st time in 50 years

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

FILE - A series of greenhouses are pictured at the University of Nevada, Reno, where a rare desert wildflower is growing in this photo taken on Feb. 10, 2020, in Reno, Nevada. The Biden administration says a U.S. judge exceeded his authority when he ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide by May 21, 2021, whether to formally propose endangered species protection and designate critical habitat for a rare desert wildflower at the center of a fight over a proposed lithium mine in Nevada. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)

US fights new deadline for rare plant protections in Nevada

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Legislation aims to kill 90% of wolves roaming Idaho

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

Archaeologists: Site of Harriet Tubman’s father’s home found

By BRIAN WITTE - Associated Press

This Nov. 2020 photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows a mountain lion, dubbed P-78, taken with a remote field camera in the taken in the eastern Santa Susana Mountains at Towsley Canyon, in Los Angeles County. P-78 a mountain lion that was part of a federal study in the Los Angeles region was found dead with injuries likely caused by a vehicle. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area says Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the male lion, was the 23rd victim of road mortality in the study area since 2002. Biologists received a mortality signal from P-78's tracking collar in December. (NPS via AP)

Judge: US agency illegally paid for Colorado predator hunt

By JAMES ANDERSON - Associated Press

Officials seek information on death of endangered gray wolf

Associated Press

FILE - This May 20, 2019, file photo shows a Mexican gray wolf in Eurkea, Mo. Once on the verge of extinction, the rarest subspecies of the gray wolf in North America has seen its population nearly double over the last five years. U.S. wildlife managers said Friday, March 12, 2021, the latest survey shows there are now at least 186 Mexican gray wolves in the wild in New Mexico and Arizona. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

US seeks more time to rewrite Mexican wolf management rules

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2020, file photo, Grizzly bear 399 and her four cubs feed on a deer carcass in southern Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Federal investigators have decided not to pursue charges against a woman suspected of illegally feeding the grizzly bears at her home in Jackson Hole. The woman denied that food was put out for grizzlies, only moose. Feeding grizzlies is illegal but feeding moose is legal in Wyoming. (Ryan Dorgan/Jackson Hole News &amp; Guide via AP, File)

No charges after Wyoming grizzly feeding investigation

By MIKE KOSHMRL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2011 file photo, a pair of whooping cranes walk through shallow marsh water looking for food near the Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Fulton, Texas. The coronavirus pandemic has canceled 2021’s flights to count only natural flock of whooping cranes — the first time in 71 years that crews in Texas couldn't make an aerial survey of the world’s rarest cranes. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Virus outbreak cancels whooping crane count in Texas

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 25, 2003, file photo, bison wander along a hillside at the National Bison Range near Moiese, Mont. Federal officials have transferred the range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. (AP Photo/Jack Sullivan, File)

Montana’s National Bison Range transferred to tribes

By ROB CHANEY - Associated Press

Pacific sea otter reintroduction gets nudge from Congress

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2011, file photo is a gopher frog at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Federal officials are proposing on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, changes to how the endangered species act is used following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on habitat for the frog. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

US wildlife agency gives more deference to economic benefits

By Associated Press - Associated Press