88 FR 30950
NMFS found that Pacific sardine is still overfished.
NMFS found that Pacific sardine is still overfished.
NMFS proposed to designate and authorize the release of nonessential experimental populations of Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon and Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon in the McCloud and Upper Sacramento Rivers upstream of Shasta Dam, California, and established a limited set of take exceptions for the experimental populations under the ESA.
FWS initiated five-year status reviews under the ESA for 67 animal and plant species, and requested the submission of scientific and commercial data that has become available since the last review of the species.
FWS reclassified Furbish’s lousewort from endangered to threatened under the ESA and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the species.
A district court adopted the recommendations of a magistrate judge and vacated portions of NMFS' 2019 biological opinion concerning the incidental take statement that authorized take of southern resident killer whales and chinook salmon resulting from commercial harvest of chinook salmon during trol...
A district court granted environmental groups' motion to preliminarily enjoin a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest. The groups argued the project violated the ESA by failing to adequately consider the impacts of unauthorized motorized access on grizzly bears in the project area. The cou...
The U.S. Geological Survey announced that it, in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada and Mexico’s La Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, will undertake a two-year regional assessment of biodiversity and climate change, culminating in the first-ever assessment report addressing these two challenges together for the United States, Canada, Mexico, U.S. territories, and Freely Associated States.
CEQ requested information on Columbia River salmon and other native fish restoration, as well as other relevant information to an ongoing mediation.
FWS designated approximately 78,009 acres in Idaho as critical habitat for slickspot peppergrass under the ESA.
NMFS initiated a five-year status review under the ESA for the Taiwanese humpback dolphin, and requested submission of any new scientific and commercial data that has become available since the species was listed in 2018.