A recent article in Greenwire, reports that opponents of robust Constitutional protections for property rights and limits on federal power are finding a kernel of hope in the Supreme Court's opinion in the raisin case decided last term. They contend that the opinion insulates regulations to protect wildlife -- like those adopted under the Endangere ...
The bald eagle was listed as a protected species in the lower 48 States under the Endangered Species Act in 1978. Fortunately, by 1999, the eagle had sufficiently recovered for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists to recommend the delisting of the American icon. However, the eagle languished on the protected list for years without any a ...
Author: Reed Hopper Builder magazine reports: Last week's announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—that it would consider reclassifying the wood stork, a wading bird often found in South Florida's Everglades, as "threatened" from its current "endangered" status—is the culmination of nearly five years of wrangling a ...