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  • Idaho says no to grizzlies

    The Idaho Fish and Game Commission opposes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to restore grizzly bears to the state.

    by John Rosapepe And Steve Stuebner, Feb 17, 1997

  • Who shot the wolf?

    A male gray wolf reintroduced into the Yellowstone area was found shot and dumped into Montana's Madison River.

    by Clair Johnson, Mar 03, 1997

  • Wanted alive

    The Colorado Division of Wildlife is distributing posters to ask the public to keep its eyes open for the fast-disappearing boreal toad.

    by Staff, Mar 03, 1997

  • Grizzlies invited back to the Bitterroot

    To ease the process of reintroducing grizzly bears to the Bitterroot Mountains on the Montana-Idaho border, the Fish and Wildlife Service is setting up a citizen management panel to give locals a voice in the project.

    by Sherry Devlin, Dec 04, 2000

  • Ferrets are back in town

    The Cheyenne River Sioux tribe is trying to restore endangered black-footed ferrets to the South Dakota reservation.

    by Tim Sullivan, Dec 04, 2000

  • Still here: Can humans help other species defy extinction?

    A writer considers the philosophical questions that underlie endangered species protection, and how it is that one predator - the human kind - now finds itself assisting other predators, and also trying to help their prey.

    by Edwin Dobb, Dec 18, 2000

  • Service leaves endangered species in limbo

    Environmentalists fear that a listing freeze at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - which the agency blames on a much-reduced budget - will lead to a host of endangered species going extinct.

    by Tony Davis, Jan 29, 2001

  • Swift fox may lose the race

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dropped the swift fox as a candidate for endangered species listing.

    by Matt Jenkins, Jan 29, 2001

  • A slow comeback for Mexican wolves

    Reintroduced Mexican gray wolves are continuing to die along the Arizona-New Mexico border, and environmentalists blame ranchers for the latest deaths.

    by Oakley Brooks, Jan 29, 2001

  • Will logging save the spotted owl?

    In Oregon, a plan to selectively log the Clatsop and Tillamook state forests is supposed to improve habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl, but conservationists have their doubts.

    by Mike Stark, Mar 12, 2001
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