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Sage-Grouse in the Crosshairs
It’s “silly season” in Congress. It’s an election year and the legislative session is winding down, which means that certain legislators and special interests have begun to purposefully introduce...
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This Won’t Make it Rain
Last week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced that they are releasing millions of hatchery trout six months earlier than they normally would because river conditions are so...
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Refuges in Peril
Why the National Wildlife Refuge System is so important — yet drastically underfunded A flock of geese erupts across the sky, calling raucously through the pink and orange light of morning. Tiny...
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The House’s Continued Assault on Endangered Species
Earlier this year, Representative Doc Hastings, a powerful foe of wildlife conservation and Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, launched a horribly biased and slanted attack on the...
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Not-So-Easy Riders: House Bill is Chock-Full of Bad Wildlife Policy
The House of Representatives is out for its summer recess, but before it left, it passed a damaging bill through the House Appropriations Committee. The bill is supposed to be providing funding for...
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STOP MAKING SENSE: White House Suggests Smart Planning, Congress May Say No
If you’re planning to build a road, doesn’t it make sense to place it somewhere that won’t be washed away by rising seas within a few years? If you’re working on a water project that will impact a...
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Breaking News: Senate Almost Believes in Science
A funny thing happened on the way to the Keystone Pipeline bill: U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly that “climate change is real and not a hoax” and came very close to going on the record that people are...
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Wolf Weekly Wrap-Up
Oregon Wolves Headed Towards Delisting? Seven years ago there was not a single wolf in Oregon. At last count at the end of 2013, there were more than 64 wolves in the state. Thanks to protections...
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America’s Wildlife Refuges Belong to All of Us
Jamie Rappaport Clark is the President and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife It’s one of our nation’s most iconic bastions of pristine wilderness. It supports over 200 arctic species. Its coastal plain is a...
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Meddling Murkowski: Reactionary Bill Just Another Roadblock to Protecting a...
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a crown jewel of the National Wildlife Refuge System. A place of pristine beauty, unchanged for millennia. One of our nation’s last bastions of untouched...
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Wolf Weekly Wrap-Up
Calling All Idaho Wolf Supporters! This Monday: Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s (IDFG) Fish and Game Commission is holding a special meeting at 7 pm, this Monday, March 23 in Boise. At this event,...
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The Dark Humor of Climate Denial
Behind the Absurdity, a Serious Crisis Originally published in The Huffington Post Worried about climate change and the effects of extreme weather? Concerned about what the future holds for our...
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Wolf Weekly Wrap-Up
Northern Rockies Wolf Population Count and Idaho’s Claims of a Population Rise: Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released the regional population count of wolves living in the Northern...
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Five Years Later: Failing to Learn from an Environmental Tragedy
Five years ago today, a catastrophic explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig initiated one of the worst environmental disasters of our time. The initial tragedy of the deadly explosion,...
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A Congressional Assault on Earth
Originally published in The Huffington Post How are members of Congress celebrating Earth Day this year? Planting trees? Recycling? Passing legislation that will further protect our air, land, water...
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Wolf Weekly Wrap-Up
First Washington Wolf Goes West: The first gray wolf known to travel west of the Cascade Crest in Washington State was confirmed this week after local officials found it killed by collision with a...
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Why One Wolf’s Death Is a Much Bigger Story
Wolf Recovery in Washington State If you keep up on wolf happenings in the news, you may have seen a headline or two about a wolf that was killed by a vehicle on I-90 between North Bend and Snoqualmie,...
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Sage-grouse and other threatened species don’t threaten national security
Military readiness and the conservation of greater sage-grouse – an iconic and imperiled bird that makes its home in the American West – and other imperiled species are not things most Americans would...
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Congress’ Latest Ploy to Remove Protections for Gray Wolves: You’d think the bill Congress drafted to fund the Department of the Interior (DOI) in 2016 would do just that. Unfortunately, in addition to...
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Wolf Weekly Wrap-Up
Wolves Face Delisting Threat in Several States: Anti-wildlife members of Congress continue efforts to undermine protections for gray wolves and their latest attempt is to insert a rider into the 2016...
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