Results for keyword: Endangered
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Apache trout swim ‘full stream’ ahead
Arizona's state fish is about to become the first fish removed from the endangered species list as a result of successful recovery.
by James Yearling, Oct 16, 2007 -
Salmon Justice
Judge Jim Redden has given the Bush administration an ultimatum: Submit a viable plan for salmon restoration, or face the possible removal of four dams on the lower Snake River.
by Ken Olsen, Jan 22, 2007 -
A River Once More
In Oregon, a revolutionary community alliance is working to put water – and steelhead trout – back into the Deschutes River
by Matt Jenkins, Oct 16, 2006 -
Failing Bay-Delta may take a living fossil with it
Even as raising sturgeon for caviar takes off in the San Francisco Bay-Delta area, the region's wild sturgeon are in serious trouble, along with the rest of the Bay-Delta’s ecology
by Jennie Lay, Jul 24, 2006 -
Stalking the boojum in the Sonoran Desert
Sonoran Desert Plants: An Ecological Atlas is a revised and expanded edition of a classic botanical guide
by Renee Guillory, Feb 20, 2006 -
Trouble in the Delta
The San Francisco Bay-Delta Authority votes to disband, even as the Bay-Delta itself -- beset by high water exports, disappearing fish and declining water quality – may be dying
by Matt Jenkins, Feb 06, 2006 -
Restoration-by-poisoning plan shot down
Just hours before the California Department of Fish and Game planned to poison a Sierra Nevada stream to help restore a threatened trout, a federal court halted the controversial project
by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 17, 2005 -
The House takes an ax to the Endangered Species Act
The writer says House reform of the Endangered Species Act was more like destruction
by John Echeverria, Oct 10, 2005 -
One man’s grisly encounter with a grizzly
The writer calls the documentary "Grizzly Man" a fascinating exploration of one man’s doomed love for bears
by John Krist, Sep 26, 2005 -
The harder they spawn, the quicker they die
Silvery minnows had a good run this year on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande, but an increase in the number of dead fish has prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to raise the "incidental take" numbers allowed for the species
by Laura Paskus, Sep 05, 2005
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