Endangered Species Act

A female grizzly was previously relocated to Wyoming to improve genetic connectivity — a factor that has prevented Western states from taking grizzlies off the Endangered Species Act.

The new ruling could be a setback for the Trump administration's attempts to loosen habitat protections. However, a federal committee has also voted to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from the act.

New regulations on the currently-endangered species were supposed to be finalized by Jan. 31. However, the Trump administration has delayed that until December, citing staffing issues.

Due to the level of difficulty surrounding land permits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened the Endangered Species Act to suggestions on how to better streamline these permits.

It would still be illegal to harm Mountain West species, such as jumping mice, migratory birds and desert tortoises, but their habitats may no longer be federally protected.

A recent petition seeks to have the migratory Great Salt Lake bird, Wilson's Phalarope listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

A new book by Lowell Baier is not just a history of The Endangered Species Act, but an explanation of what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong in the implementation of this historic federal statute.

The year 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. It was also another year in an ongoing crisis of biodiversity loss, species extinctions, climate change, and natural disasters. On this episode we talk with Lowell Baier about the new books: The Codex of the Endangered Species Act, volumes 1 & 2.

Three bills before Congress would de-list currently protected populations of large carnivores, including the Northern Continental Divide grizzly bears (HR 1419), the Yellowstone grizzly population (HR 1245) and gray wolves nationwide (HR 764).

Conservation groups are slamming a spending deal in Congress that's expected to pass this week because it would forbid Endangered Species Act protections for an imperiled bird in the West.