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Oct 4, 2022

Wildlife conservation groups sue feds over claims of failure to approve program restoring Mexican wolves

Wildlife conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over what they say is the agency's failure to follow federal law in approving a program to restore Mexican wolves to Arizona.

The Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon. A federal study found that fish in the Grand Canyon and 20 other national parks in the West have trace amounts of mercury. (U.S. Geological Survey Photo)
Aug 31, 2020

Projects to restore public lands, national parks can begin

This bipartisan, bicameral legislative victory did not come easily. It took decades of grassroots work and the tireless support of conservation champions in Congress to see permanent funding of the LWCF - a conservation program paid for by royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling in federal waters that typically receives less than half of its allotment.

Apr 21, 2016

Arizona to get $26 million in conservation funding

The state of Arizona is slated to receive nearly $26 million to go toward conservation funding.

Jan 28, 2013

Endangered species status, habitat proposed for fish in Arizona

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Jan. 25 proposed listing a small freshwater fish as an endangered species and setting aside almost 300 miles of Arizona and New Mexico streams as critical habitat for the fish.

Feds: Mexican owl recovery could cost $42M by 2022
Dec 18, 2012

Mexican spotted owl recovery could cost $42M by 2022 feds say

The federal government estimates it will cost more than $42 million over the next decade to help get the Mexican spotted owl off the national list of threatened species.

A captive Mexican gray wolf at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico in 2011. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declined to identified the wolves, found in Arizona and New Mexico, as separate from the larger gray wolf population. (Photo courtesy Dan Shaw/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Dec 11, 2012

Conservation group sues – again – to protect Mexican gray wolf in Arizona

For the second time in less than two weeks, a Tucson-based conversation group has sued the federal government over its handling of the Mexican gray wolf.

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