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The past few weeks have seen several misleading articles and editorials on the proposed Endangered Species Act section 7 consultation regulations.  It's something we've discussed on this blog (see here, here, here, and here), and the Department of Interior has noted likewise. Aside from the misleading statements, one ...

In September, Judge Friedman of the District of Columbia District Court overturned the Service's delisting of a Great Lakes population of gray wolf, and remanded the matter to the Service for further analysis.  (See here for previous commentary from this blog.)  The decision is criticized in this article from the Green Bay Press Gaz ...

As noted recently at Recordnet.com, scientists are considering hatchery breeding as a means to address the situation of the delta smelt, a threatened species. A recent CALFED report that discusses in part this subject is available here. … ...

The New York Times stated yesterday that, in the Section 7 consultation proposals, Interior Secretary Kempthorne has "carved out significant exceptions to regulations requiring expert scientific review of any federal project that might harm endangered or threatened species (one consequence will be to relieve the agency of the need to assess th ...

Last week the District of Oregon ruled in Moden v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that the Service has no duty to act upon the findings of a five-year status review initiated under Section 4 of the ESA.  As readers of this blog will recall, the Ninth Circuit held recently in Coos County Board of Commissioners … ...

In the late 90s and early 2000s, there was considerable political and legal controversy over the US Bureau of Reclamation's operation of the Klamath Irrigation Project (located in Northern California and Southern Oregon).  The central legal issue of the dispute was whether the Project's operation would jeopardize the continued existen ...

Center for Biological Diversity reports on a recent Japanese effort that has successfully cloned mice from the frozen carcasses of other mice that had been dead for 16 years.  The clinical success raises hopes that carcasses of long-extinct mammals found in tundra, e.g. the wooly mammoth, might be brought back to life, as it were.   ...

Fox 5 Las Vegas reports on the new protection against eminent domain abuse enacted by the voters of Nevada. … ...

Here's an interesting article from the Ag Journal on how global warming fits into Endangered Species Act Section 7 consultations. One of the main conclusions of the article is that "despite the FWS guidance’s attempt to limit the reach of Section 7 consultations for global warming, the final decision regarding whether a federal agenc ...