November 30, 2005 - Groups Compel Government to Buy Alternative Fuel Vehicles

November 14 2005 - CONSERVATION GROUPS CHALLENGE PLAN TO EXPAND GRAZING ALONG BIG SUR COASTLINE

November 15, 2005 - KILLER WHALES PROTECTED AS ENDANGERED

November 10, 2005 - DIVERSE COALITION PRESENTS CASE FOR MONO BASIN SAGE GROUSE PROTECTION

November 3, 2005 - RESPECTED FEDERAL BIOLOGIST & NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGER JOINS CENTER’S DESERTS PROGRAM

November 2, 2005 - US Forest Service Releases Flawed Off-Road Vehicle Regulations

November 2, 2005 - GILA CHUB LISTED AS ENDANGERED SPECIES UNDER ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

November 2, 2005 - Cactus pygmy-owl down 30% in Sonora, and still declining as Bush Fish & Wildlife Service pushes de-listing.

November 1, 2005 - HABITAT PROTECTION PROPOSED FOR WORLD’S MOST IMPERILED WHALE

October 31, 2005 - GAO FINDS PUBLIC LANDS GRAZING IN THE RED: BUDGET DEFICIT AT LEAST $123 MILLION ANNUALLY

October 26, 2005 - Okinawa Air Base Deal Still Controversial

October 24, 2005 - Judge Approves Settlement To Protect Atlantic White Marlin From Longline Fishing

October 20, 2005 - Biologists move for protection of 17 Algodones Dunes endemic species

October 19, 2005 - SUIT FILED TO PROTECT SAN DIEGO BUTTERFLIES

October 18, 2005 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION CUTS CRITICAL HABITAT FOR 5TH SoCAL ENDANGERED SPECIES

October 14, 2005 - CENTER OFFERS REWARD FOR SAGUARO KILLER JUSTICE

October 12, 2005 - CONSERVATIONISTS CALL FOR NEW POLAR BEAR PROTECTIONS

October 6, 2005 - STUDY FINDS HUNDREDS OF IMPERILED SPECIES IN PUGET SOUND BASIN

October 5, 2005 - CONSERVATION GROUPS PUSH FOR DEVILS RIVER MINNOW HABITAT PROTECTION

September 29, 2005 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GUTS ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Septemebr 27, 2005 - MANSON SLASHES CRITICAL HABITATS FOR SNOWY PLOVER: Interior reveals that Manson cooked the books, is dishonest about habitat

September 23, 2005 - FOREST SERVICE PLANS LEAVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FORESTS AT RISK: MANAGEMENT PLANS FAIL TO MEET NEEDS OF MAJORITY OF FOREST VISITORS

September 20, 2005 - COURT FINDS EPA FAILED TO PROTECT MARK TWAIN'S CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG FROM PESTICIDES

September 19, 2005 - POMBO BILL WOULD RIP THE HEART OUT OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

September 19, 2005 - Center for Biological Diversity Forest Director Chosen for National Roadless Advisory Committee

September 15, 2005 - Pombo’s Anti-Endangered Species Bill Leaked Again

September 15, 2005 - Conservation Groups File Appeal to Halt Oil Drilling Expansion in Los Padres National Forest

September 9, 2005 - HAWAI’I’S IMPERILED PICTURE-WINGS TO BE PROTECTED IN 2006

August 30, 2005 - Court says Bush Interior Dept. wrong to pull lizard protection, restores proposed listing rule for flat-tailed horned lizard.

August 29, 2005 - CONSERVATION GROUPS HONOR PIMA COUNTY, CALL FOR STRONG ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

August 26, 2005 - CENTER MOVES FOR BIGHORN CRITICAL HABITAT PROTECTION: BUSH FOREST SERVICE HURTS SIERRA NEVADA RECOVERY

August 24, 2005 - CONSERVATION, RELIGIOUS GROUPS SUE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA RIVERS FOR THE ARROYO TOAD

August 23, 2005 - U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE TO CONSIDER PROTECTION OF MEXICAN GARTER SNAKE

August 23, 2005 - CONSERVATIONISTS SEEK PROTECTION FOR RARE SALAMANDERS

August 18, 2005 - STUDY FINDS FOREST SERVICE’S GUIDELINES FOR PROTECTING NORTHERN GOSHAWK IN THE SOUTHWEST ARE INADEQUATE

August 16, 2005 - Coalition Petitions for Leash Law Enforcement at GGNRA

August 16, 2005 - CONSERVATION GROUPS CALL ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROTECTIONS FOR 286 SPECIES ON WAITING LIST

August 16, 2005 - PETITION FILED TO PROTECT WORLD’S MOST IMPERILED WHALE

August 15, 2005 - NEW SALMON AND STEELHEAD HABITAT PROTECTIONS ANNOUNCED FOR ENTIRE WEST COAST

August 11, 2005 - GROUPS TO SUE TO PROTECT LOS ANGELES AND RIVERSIDE AREA RIVER HABITATS FOR SANTA ANA SUCKER FISH

August 10, 2005 - MONTANA FLUVIAL ARCTIC GRAYLING TO AGAIN BE CONSIDERED FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION

August 9, 2005 - U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT BACKTRACKS ON GRAZING RULES: BLM WILL REWORK EIS; CONSERVATIONISTS FEAR MORE DISHONESTY

August 9, 2005 - ALASKAN SEA OTTER POPULATION PROTECTION BEGINS

July 28, 2005 - Oil Drilling Will Expand Into Pristine Areas of Los Padres National Forest

July 22, 2005 - CONSERVATION GROUPS SUE TO PROTECT GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY LIVESTOCK GRAZING

July 22, 2005 - FAMOUS WOLF DIES OF STRESS AND OVERHEATING AS A RESULT OF CAPTURE

July 20, 2005 - FORT HUACHUCA ADMITS GROUNDWATER PUMPING DIRECTLY HARMING SAN PEDRO RIVER!

July 18, 2005 - AVEDA CORPORATION GATHERS 160,000 SIGNATURES TO PROTECT ENDANGERED PLANTS AND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

July 9, 2005 - SAN PEDRO RIVER RUNS DRY FOR FIRST TIME NEAR FORT HUACHUCA

July 8, 2005 - POMBO BILL WOULD REPEAL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, ELIMINATE RECOVERY GOALS AND REQUIREMENTS

July 7, 2005 - CONSERVATION GROUPS JOIN PETITION TO PROTECT THE POLAR BEAR AS A THREATENED SPECIES UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

June 29, 2005 - pROTECTION DENIED FOR CRITICALLY ENDANGERED mIAMI BLUE BUTTERFLY

June 28, 2005 - POMBO'S ENDANGERED SPECIES BILL REVEALED

June 28, 2005 - FOREST SERVICE JEOPARDIZING SIERRA NEVADA BIGHORN RECOVERY WITH SHEEP RANCHING

June 24, 2005 - FOUR ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS FILE SUIT FRIDAY - JUNE 24, 2005 - AFTER THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITE APPROVED 1,100 UNIT RIVERPARK PROJECT, IGNORING MONTHS OF PUBLIC PROTEST.

June 23, 2005 - CONSERVATIONISTS SEEK PROTECTION FOR RARE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SALAMANDERS

June 21, 2005 - MOST IMPERILED MAMMAL IN NORTH AMERICA FACES SECOND EXTERMINATION

June 21, 2005 - PENTAGON COVER-UP OF FORT HUACHUCA'S WATER PROBLEM: INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM BRAC COMMISSION

June 20, 2005 - FOSSIL CREEK RESTORATION CELEBRATED - WILD AND SCENIC DESIGNATION NEXT

June 20, 2005 - ASSAULT ON SCIENCE AT FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE PROVOKES SHARP CRITICISM BY MORE THAN 160 SCIENTISTS

June 16, 2005 - U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT’S NEW REGULATIONS UNDERCUT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND THREATEN WILDLIFE & WATER WITH HAND-OUTS TO THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY

June 15, 2005 - TONTO NATIONAL FOREST MANAGERS JEOPARDIZE DESERT BY RESUMING RANCHING WITHOUT THOROUGHLY EVALUATING DROUGHT IMPACTS

June 15, 2005 - REPORT SHOWS U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE FAILED TO MAKE PROGRESS PROTECTING NATION’S WILDLIFE

June 15, 2005 - COURT ORDERS BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PROTECT HABITAT FOR WORLD’S MOST IMPERILED WHALE

June 16, 2005 - FOREST SERVICE WITHDRAWS CONTROVERSIAL NORTH RIM OLD GROWTH TIMBER SALE

June 6, 2005 - New Fort Huachuca data shows increased peril to San Pedro

June1, 2005 - ALAKSAN SEA OTTER POPULATION DECLINE ACCELERATES: SUIT FILED

June 1, 2005 - FORT HUACHUCA VIOLATIONS OF SAN PEDRO RIVER COMPACT CHALLENGED

May 19, 2005 - BISCUIT FIRE “RECOVERY PROJECT” TO HARM AS MANY AS 100 RARE AND IMPERILED WILDLIFE SPECIES

May 17, 2005 - POMBO ENDANGERED SPECIES REPORT FLAWED

May 17, 2005 - U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE FAILS TO PROTECT MEXICAN GARTER SNAKE

May 16, 2005 - NEW SPECIES OF SALAMANDER FOUND IN SISKIYOU MNTS.

May 16, 2005 - CONSERVATIONISTS WIN CRITICAL HABITAT AGREEMENT FOR MOJAVE RARE PLANTS NEAR ST. GEORGE, UTAH

May 16, 2005 - U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE FAILS TO PROTECT 286 THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES

May 10, 2005 - FLORIDA’S IMPERILED CORAL REEFS ONE STEP CLOSER TO PROTECTION

May 10, 2005 - Judge Closes 700 Miles of Off-road trails on Eldorado National Forest

May 10, 2005 - Tucson conservationists say ‘NO’ to water bonds

May 5, 2005 - AZ biologists say keep cactus pygmy owl on endangered list; FWS regional & DC managers rumored to reject proposal, plan to de-list owl

May 3, 2005 - U.S. and Mexican Groups Turn to NAFTA to Save Endangered Seabirds from “Energy Maquiladora”

April 27, 2005 - GAO: ENDANGERED SPECIES EXPENDITURES MATCH BIOLOGICAL PRIORITIES UNHAPPY WITH POSITIVE REVIEW, REPRESENTATIVE POMBO TRIES TO MISLEAD MEDIA WITH FALSE PRESS RELEASE

April 26, 2005 - SETTLEMENT REACHED TO PROTECT RARE VIRGIN ISLAND PLANTS

April 14, 2005 - Environmental Groups Sue 14 Federal Agencies for Failure to Implement Energy Policy Act

April 6, 2005 - Park Service Rescinds Approval of Mojave “Guzzlers” Facing a Lawsuit, Agency Withdraws Its Okay for Artificial Watering in Desert Park

April 6, 2005 - FISHERIES SERVICE TO PROTECT GREEN STURGEON IN SACRAMENTO RIVER, REFUSES TO EXTEND PROTECTION TO KLAMATH RIVER

April 5, 2005 - Fort Huachuca area lenders challenged for San Pedro River harm

March 30, 2005 - ALTAMONT LAWSUIT TO GO FORWARD SEEKING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF TO PREVENT RAPTOR KILLINGS AT ALTAMONT PASS, CA WIND TURBINES

March 30, 2005 - NEW BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOREST REGULATION CHALLENGED IN FEDERAL COURT

March 24, 2005 - BLM wILL SIGN FLAWED ALGODONES OFF-ROAD PLAN

March 17, 2005 - Un-permitted West Mojave off-road race a threat to endangered desert wildlife & habitat

March 17, 2005 - Fort Huachuca violations of San Pedro compact challenged, Expansion exceeds mitigation, jeopardizes River

March 1, 2005 - Artificial Watering Expansion Threatens Wildlife at Mojave National Preserve; Political Appointees at Interior Vetoed Park Objections; Lawsuit Filed

February 16, 2005 - CENTER SUBMITS PETITION TO LIST THE POLAR BEAR AS A THREATENED SPECIES UNDER THE ESA: POLAR BEARS MAY BECOME EXTINCT BY THE END OF THIS CENTURY DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING

Febrary 3, 2005 - FOUR CONSERVATION GROUPS FILE SUIT TO PROTECT TROUT AS ENDANGERED SPECIES

February 1, 2005 - FEDERAL JUDGE AGREES WITH CENTER: RULING WILL LEAD TO WOLF RECOVERY IN BROADER AREAS

January 24, 2005 - CONSERVATION GROUPS CHALLENGE BIG SUR GRAZING DECISION

January 4, 2005 - Court rules Bush administration's off-road plan is illegal threat to desert web-of-life. To help recovery, off-road vehicles ordered off 572,000 acres of desert tortoise critical habitat

December 16, 2004 - ORCAS WILL BE PROTECTED UNDER ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: Conservationists Hail Decision to Protect Orcas, Demand Congress Protect Endangered Species Act

December 16, 2004 - CONDOR CONCERN: TOXIC LEAD HUNTING AMMUNITION TARGETED FOR PHASE-OUT

December 15, 2004 - CENTER FILES NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE TO PREVENT "ACCIDENTAL" GOVT. KILLING OF JAGUARS

December 15, 2004 - CENTER FILES PETITION TO PROTECT TUCSON SHOVEL-NOSED SNAKE

December 9, 2004 - FOREST SERVICE REVERSES CONTROVERSIAL LAND EXCHANGE DECISION AFTER PROTESTS FROM HOMEOWNERS, CONSERVATIONISTS

December 9, 2004 - CENTER CHALLENGES PRESCOTT TO SAVE UPPER VERDE RIVER

December 7, 2004 - U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE RELEASES FIVE YEAR REVIEW OF MEXICAN WOLF REINTRODUCTION

December 2, 2004 - FOUR SPECIES OF LAMPREY TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PROTECTION UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

December 2, 2004 - Conservationists to challenge Bush Fish & Wildlife Service's failure to consider protection for 17 at-risk Algodones Dunes endemic species

November 11, 2004 - CITING HABITAT DAMAGE, CONSERVATIONISTS WANTBORDER PATROL TO RECONSIDER NEW PLANS FOR BORDER CONSTRUCTION

November 9, 2004 - Groups challenge Bush administration to protect endangered species and public health at BLM Clear Creek Management Area 

November 4, 2004 - EXPANDED LAWSUIT OVER RAPTOR KILLS AT ALTAMONT PASS, CA WIND TURBINES

October 25, 2004 - LEGAL PROTECTIONS SOUGHT FOR RARE BUTTERFLIES

October 25, 2004 - Katie Lee — Leading Lady of the Mighty Colorado — to Perform Tucson Benefit for Center for Biological Diversity

October 25, 2004 - CONSERVATIONISTS CHALLENGE BUREAUCRATS’ FAILURE TO PROTECT WORLD’S MOST IMPERILED WHALE

October 6, 2004 - Conservationists request new evaluation of predator control threats to jaguars

October 6, 2004 - Increased protection petitioned for Southwestern Desert Nesting Bald Eagle

October 1, 2004 - Endangered Species Status Sought for Black-Footed Albatross

September 30, 2004 - Coalition of Conservation Groups Calls for Halt of Illegal Actions Threatening Cheat River Canyon Wildlife

September 30, 2004 - PROTECTION SOUGHT FOR IMPERILED AFRICAN ANTELOPES

September 27, 2004 - BIOLOGISTS GO TO COURT FOR MOJAVE RARE PLANT HABITAT

September 24, 2004 - CONSERVATIONISTS AND GOVERNMENT SETTLE LAWSUIT ON ENDANGERED JAGUARS

September 23, 2004 - Rule Change Undermines Environmental Safeguards in the Name of ‘Streamlining’

September 20, 2004 - Broad Coalition Acts to Save a National Treasure in South Dakota: Lawsuit is Last Ditch Effort to Stop Destruction of Critical Ferret Habitat

September 20, 2004 - Bush Administration Admits Failure to Protect Great Lakes Wildlife: Agrees to Protect Habitat for Critically Endangered Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly

September 20, 2004 - ROUNDTAIL AND HEADWATER CHUBS HEADED FOR EXTINCTION: BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILS TO PROTECT NATION'S WILDLIFE

September 13, 2004 - Critical Habitat will protect six endangered plants from extinction and promote their recovery

September 8, 2004 - Endangered Pacific Island Bird to Receive Habitat Protection Settlement protects Rota bridled white-eye

September 7, 2004 - San Pedro Consumer Complaint Filed against ADWR

September 7, 2004 - International Conservation Groups Call on Bush & Koizumi to Save the Okinawa Dugong

September 2, 2004 - Conservationists Sue Federal Government to Conserve Endangered Fish Habitat

September 1, 2004 - PROTECTION SOUGHT FOR CALIFORNIA SPOTTED OWL  

September 1, 2004 - LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT TWO IMPERILED VIRGIN ISLAND PLANT SPECIES

August 16, 2004 - LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT HABITAT FOR FIVE RARE PLANT SPECIES

August 10, 2004 - CALIFORNIA TIGER SALAMANDER CRITICAL HABITAT PROPOSED IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: YET BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO DEFY THE LAW

August 5, 2004 - CONSERVATION GROUPS CHALLENGE PALM SPRINGS URBAN SPRAWL PROJECT THREATENING BIGHORN SHEEP

Auguat 4, 2004 - Court finds Bush administration desert species permits illegal

August 3, 2004 - Bush administration hacks dunes endangered species critical habitat by 60%

July, 30, 2004 - INVESTIGATION SOUGHT FOR DEATH OF CALIFORNIA CONDOR

July 27, 2004 - REPORT HIGHLIGHTS PESTICIDE THREATS TO ENDANGERED SPECIES AND HUMAN HEALTH: Bush Administration Rollback Would Weaken Regulation of Harmful Pesticides

July 26, 2004 - CALIFORNIA TIGER SALAMANDER PROTECTED IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA UNDER FEDERAL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

July 19, 2004 - Conservationists move to protect 16 Algodones Dunes endemic species from Bush off-road plan

July 2, 2004 - WORLD'S LEADING CORAL REEF EXPERTS VOICE OPPOSITION TO U.S. MILITARY AIRBASE PROJECT AT HENOKO, OKINAWA, AND HIGHLIGHT THE THREAT THAT LAND-FILL PROJECTS POSE TO CORAL REEFS.

June 24, 2004 - U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ORDERED TO CONSIDER ENDANGERED STATUS FOR THREE WESTERN SPECIES

June 23, 2004 - COASTAL CUTTHROAT TROUT HEADED FOR EXTINCTION; BUSH ADMINISTRATION PLAYS POLITICS

June 19, 2004 - PETITION FILED TO PROTECT SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS SALAMANDER AS ENDANGERED SPECIES  

June 8, 2004 - Arizona Defends Its Right to Destroy the Last Free Flowing River in the Desert Southwest for Developers’ Benefit; Center for Biological Diversity Counters With Lawsuit

May 28, 2004 - CONSERVATION GROUPS APPEAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY’S APPROVAL OF RECREATIONAL COMPLEX WITHOUT ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

May 26, 2004 - Court strikes down USFWS decision to not list the Queen Charlotte Goshawk under the Endangered Species Act

May 25, 2004 - AFTER YEARS OF DELAY, AGREEMENT REACHED ON LISTING OF TWO RARE PLANTS; THIRD STILL NEEDS ACTION

May 20, 2004 - COURT HALTS CONSTRUCTION IN BALD EAGLE HABITAT

May 20, 2004 - Citizens Seek Habitat Protection for Endangered Pacific Island Bird

May 18, 2004 - THREE SPECIES OF SOUTHWEST NATIVE FISH IN TROUBLE: BUSH ADMINISTRATION DRAGS ITS FEET PROTECTING THEM

May 17, 2004 - Legal Accord To Speed Endangered Species Act Listing For 73 Of The World’s Rarest Bird Species

May 12, 2004 - Conservation Groups Move To Protect Seven Imperiled Swallowtail Butterflies on Three Continents

May 12, 2004 -CONSERVATIONISTS INITIATE CHALLENGE TO FISHERY SERVICE’S ‘DON’T LOOK, DON’T PROTECT’ POLICY FOR WORLD’S MOST IMPERILED WHALE

May 11, 2004 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA SPOTTED OWL

May 11, 2004 - Endangered Species Act Protection Needed for Casey’s June Beetle: Extinction is Likely Without Emergency Measures

May 4, 2004 - SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS AND CONSERVATIONISTS PETITION BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PLACE 225 PLANTS AND ANIMALS ON ENDANGERED LIST

April 29, 2004 - Bills threatening Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and endangered species defeated

April 23, 2004 - PETITION FILED TO LIST NEVADA BUTTERFLY AS ENDANGERED SPECIES: Bush BLM failing to protect Sand Mountain blue from intensive off-road vehicle harm

April 21, 2004 - CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GROUPS OPPOSE LARGEST SINGLE DEVELOPMENT EVER PROPOSED IN CALIFORNIA

April 21, 2004 - CENTER REPORTS SHOWS SYSTEMATIC DELAYS IN ENDANGERED SPECIES LISTING PROGRAM DROVE NEARLY 100 SPECIES TO EXTINCTION

April 12, 2004 -Secret baiting and trapping of cougar in Sabino Canyon shows AGFD & USFS never ended hunt.

April 9, 2004 - Center for Biological Diversity Calls for Emergency Protection for the Tricolored Blackbird

April 1, 2004 - Senator's vendetta against desert park managers continues

March 30, 2004 - Petition filed to protect the yellow-billed loon under the ESA

March 29, 2004 - Conservationists file formal petition for rule-making for Mexican wolves

March 28, 2004 - AGFD & USFS call off Sabino Canyon lion hunt.

March 25, 2004 - Assault on ecologist part of AGFD's larger problem of hearing and respecting public input.

March 24, 2004 - Court Decision Stalls Nevada Fedaral Land Sale

March 22,2004- Conservation groups propose moving cougars farther up mountain, away from people.

March 19, 2004 -AGFD admits moving adult cougars to captivity doesn’t work.

March 18, 2004 -Conservationists reject AGFD proposal to move Sabino Canyon Mountain Lions at this time. Move, captivity may kill pumas.

March 17, 2004 - Public forum Friday in Tucson on Sabino Canyon cougars.
Government ‘evidence’of puma threat still very sketchy. AGFD Director agrees to meeting.

March 15, 2004 - LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SOUTHEASTERN MUSSELS

March 15, 2003 - Arizona Game & Fish Director announces halt of Sabino Canyon cougar hunt. Game & Fish Commission will hold special meeting Tuesday in Phoenix.

March 15, 2004 - Citizens’non-violent hunt interference effort ongoing to protect pumas on-the-ground. Cougar hunters observed in Sabino Canyon area Sunday night.

March 13, 2004 - Arizonans pack Game & Fish Commission hearing today in Tucson, most to demand stop to cougar hunt

March 12, 2004 - Governor, Congressman and citizens ignored as officials rush mountain lion kill at Sabino Canyon

March 10, 2004 - USFS Targets Sabino Canyon Mountain Lions

March 9, 2004 - CONSERVATION GROUPS SEEK PROTECTION FOR GOSHAWK IN NORTHERN ROCKIES

March 3, 2004 - COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF CONSERVATION GROUPS SEEKING PROTECTION OF PREHISTORIC FISH

March 3, 2004 - Coral Reef Decline Continues, Extinction Imminent; Conservationist’s ESA Petition Demands That Bush Administration Take Action to Protect Species from Global Warming

February 25, 2004 - Senate Bills Big Threat to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and Bighorn Recovery

February 23, 2004 - Hyundai Track Plan Threatens Desert & Endangered Wildlife, Conservation groups challenge Bush administration permits

February 19, 2004 - Conservation Groups Challenge Bush Administration Old Growth Timber Sale Overlooking Grand Canyon National Park

February 12, 2004 - GROUPS CHALLENGE ENORMOUS OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT NEAR ZUNI SALT LAKE

February 10, 2004 - NEW BORDER FENCE UNECESSARILY HURTS COMMUNITIES, LAWSUIT CONTENDS: Local, State Groups Aim to Ensure That Federal Government Looks at Safer Alternatives

February 9, 2004 - RARE PUERTO RICO COQUI FROG TO RECEIVE PROTECTIONS UNDER LEGAL ACCORD

February 5, 2004 - USFWS PROPOSES RULE TO LIST ALASKA’S SEA OTTERS UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AFTER YEARS OF DELAY

Feruary 4, 2004 - Conservationists File Lawsuit for Wetlands Dragonfly Critical Habitat Designation: Bush admin. won’t map habitat in IL, MI, MO & WI —despite mandate & proof of effectiveness

February 3, 2004 - Group Releases Report on Regional Effects of 2003 Wildfires on Endangered Species, Calls for Additional Environmental Review for Development Projects

February 2, 2004 - BURROWING OWL REPORT SUPPRESSED BY FISH AND GAME COMES TO LIGHT: “OWLGATE”INCIDENT SUGGESTS DECISION NOT TO PROTECT THE SPECIES WAS IMPROPER

January 29, 2004 - COALITION FILES CALIFORNIA ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING PETITION FOR IMPERILED CALIFORNIA TIGER SALAMANDER

January 28, 2004 - Pinal County Planning and Zoning Commission Holds 3rd Hearing on Jan 29th will vote on rezoning proposal for La Osa Ranch sprawl city.

January 26, 2004 - Bush EPA Sued for Not Protecting Barton Springs and Salamander from Toxins EPA won’t consult with wildlife agency, even after pesticide study & salamander deaths

January 21, 2004 - Groups Seek Federal Protection for Cherry Point Herring: Dramatic population decline and new development prompt ESA listing proposal

January 14, 2004 - LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT ATLANTIC WHITE MARLIN FROM LONGLINE FISHING; POPULAR SPORT FISH THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION DUE TO AGENCY MISMANAGEMENT

January 12, 2004 - LAWSUIT SEEKS REDRESS FOR MASSIVE ILLEGAL BIRD KILLS AT ALTAMONT PASS, CA, WIND FARMS

January 9, 2004 - CONSERVATION GROUPS FILE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT IN BALD EAGLE HABITAT

January 7, 2004 - Industry buys access to Bush admin. & western politicians to write anti-environmental agenda: News event by public-interest groups at 3pm Thursday in Phoenix

December 22, 2003 - Federal court holds ranchers in contempt for grazing on national forest lands. Rules trespass cattle should be removed from 174,396 acres of the Apache and Gila National Forests

December 22, 2003- Lawsuit Seeks Protection for Okinawa Woodpecker, One of the World’s Rarest Birds

December 17, 2003 - Developer Seeking Massive Pinal Rezoning Charged With Federal and State Violations Johnson blades huge area, washes & cultural sites for sprawl city; his goats harm rare bighorns

December 15, 2003 - PETITION FILED TO LIST MEXICAN GARTER SNAKE AS ENDANGERED SPECIES

December 12, 2003 - COURT IMPOSES INJUNCTION ON SIERRA POST-FIRE LOGGING PROJECT

December 4, 2003 - Sea Otter Population Decline Continues, Extinction Imminent; Conservationist's Lawsuit Demands That Bush Administration Put Protection Before Politics

December 4, 2003 - STATE DENIES PROTECTION FOR IMPERILED OWLS, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS WILL FILE LAWSUIT

November 19, 2003 - LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT ENDANGERED TIDAL MARSH PLANTS, BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO WITHHOLD CRITICAL HABITAT FOR IMPERILED SPECIES

November 18, 2003 - FEDERAL JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN SUIT TO PROTECT NORTHERN GOSHAWK

November 17, 2003 - Desert Art Show Highlights Public Lands -- Tour Hits 29 Palms Starting December 8, Photos by L.A.'s Andrew Harvey of Algodones Dunes, scenic wildlands turned 'Mad Max'

November 17, 2003 - Bush Administration Sued to Protect Critical Habitat for Texas Cave & Spring Species Unique species indicators of quality-of-life, threatened by harmful impacts to Edwards Aquifer

October 30, 2003 - LAWSUIT CHALLENGES ILLEGAL DENIAL OF E.S.A. LISTING BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILS TO PROTECT FLAT-TAILED HORNED LIZARD & HABITAT

October 29, 2003 - Senate Wildfire Legislation Fails to Protect Communities: Experts Agree that Current Senate Wildfire Legislation Would Not Help Southern California, Other At-Risk Communities

October 29, 2003 - Conservationists Indicate Lawsuit for Wetlands Dragonfly Critical Habitat Designation , Bush administration fails to map Hine’s emerald recovery lands, despite mandate and proof of effectiveness

October 28, 2003 - STATEMENT ON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRES

October 27, 2003 - CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GROUPS WIN LEGAL CHALLENGE TO MASSIVE KERN COUNTY DIESEL TRUCK AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITY

October 27, 2003 - NMFS Proposes Listing Prince William Sound Orcas as “Depleted”under the MMPA

October 24, 2003 - Groups Challenge Return of Long-term Alaska Timber Contracts

October 23, 2003 - States, Environmental Groups Challenge Bush on Global Warming, Twelve Attorneys General Challenge Politically Charged EPA Pollution Ruling

October 17, 2003 - FEDS AGREE TO ADD UNIQUE CHANNEL ISLANDS FOX TO ENDANGERED LIST: 19 YEAR DELAY TO END FOR ONE OF CALIFORNIA’S MOST ENDANGERED MAMMALS

October 17, 2003 - ARIZONA RANCHERS AND CONSERVATIONISTS THROW SUPPORT BEHIND GRAZING BUYOUT BILL

October 15, 2003 - CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TARGET OF ARSON VEHICLE TORCHED IN APPARENT POLITICAL ATTACK

October 13, 2003 - FEDERAL JUDGE REFUSES TO WITHDRAW ORDER TO PROTECT MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL HABITAT; ORDERS "IMMEDIATE AND EXPEDITED" COMPLIANCE

October 10, 2003 - Charging Manipulated Science and Political Interference, Conservation
Groups Intend to Fight Mountain Plover Listing Denial in Court

October 9, 2003 - LAWSUIT FORCES REEVALUATION OF WILDERNESS STREAM POISONING PROJECT: CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVES SOUGHT FOR PAIUTE CUTTHROAT TROUT RESTORATION

October 8, 2003 - Federal Court Maintains Off-Road Vehicle Ban at Algodones Dunes for Immediate Future

October 6, 2003 - AGENCY REPORTS TO CONGRESS CONTRADICT BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S ANTI-ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT CLAIMS

October 2, 2003 - ENVIRONMENTALISTS SEEK CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGES AGAINST SECRETARY OF INTERIOR GALE NORTON IN THE MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL CASE

September 29, 2003 - FISHERIES SERVICE ANNOUNCES PENDING DECISION ON SALMON AND STEELHEAD HABITAT PROTECTION

September 29, 2003 - Groups Ask Fish and Wildlife Service to Adhere to Endangered Species Act Rules, Protect Dune Habitat

September 25, 2003 - US & JAPANESE CONSERVATION GROUPS JOIN IN LEGAL EFFORT TO SAVE OKINAWA DUGONG FROM EXTINCTION

September 24, 2003 - CONSERVATION GROUPS SUE TO STOP ILLEGAL CATTLE GRAZING ON NATIONAL FORESTS

September 2, 2003 - RENZI’S RIDER WOULD KILL RIVER TO AID CORPORATIONS & DEVELOPERS -- Freshman Congressman’s hidden agenda: defense contractors would win as San Pedro River dies

September 2, 2003 - CITIZENS ATTACK BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S BACK-ROOM DEALS WITH RANCHERS ~ DEMAND: KEEP CONTROL OF PUBLIC LANDS IN PUBLIC HANDS!

August 29, 2003 - BLM STALLS SAND MOUNTAIN PLAN AS BUSY WEEKEND APPROACHES: Bush administration working only with off-roadeers on excessive route plan that is not yet in place

August 26, 2003 - Citizens Appeal to Governor: Save the San Pedro River: “Please help stop Rep. Renzi’s San Pedro River-killing Rider,”Sen. McCain also key

August 22, 2003 - FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULES CALIFORNIA-BASED LONGLINE FISHERY VIOLATES ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: RULING WILL LIKELY RESULT IN RESTRICTIONS ON SWORDFISH FISHERY TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SEA TURTLES

August 21, 2003 - HOUSE REPUBLICAN RADICALS MAY UNDO BIPARTISAN SENATE COMPROMISE ON MILITARY ENVIRONMENTAL EXEMPTIONS

August 14, 2003 - CONSERVATION OGANIZATIONS FILE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO SPRAWLING RESIDENTIAL AND RESORT DEVELOPMENT: “Palm Springs Classic”Approved on Endangered Species Habitat

August 13, 2003 - Anti-environmental Politicians Label Industry Rally a “Congressional Hearing”

August 11, 2003 - CABIN OWNERS, FIREFIGHTERS AND LAWMAKERS TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO BUSH’S FOREST PLAN AT 8 A.M. PRESS CONFERENCE, RALLY TO FOLLOW

August 8, 2003 - LAWSUIT FORCES CRITICAL HABITAT DESIGNATION FOR TIGER SALAMANDER

August 7, 2003 - Old Growth Logging on North Rim of Grand Canyon Proposed While Community Protection Projects Go Unfunded

August 6, 2003 - VICTORY AT ZUNI SALT LAKE! —SALT RIVER PROJECT SCRAPS PLANS FOR PROPOSED 18,000 ACRE FENCE LAKE COAL STRIP MINE

August 5, 2003 - Wildlife Agency Proposes 52,780 of Algodones Dunes for Critical Habitat Protection

July 29, 2003 - Prescott National Forest logs large old growth trees with forest health funds: Leaves small trees in areas near communities

July 21, 2003 - CONSERVATIONISTS SUE U.S. TO RECOVER JAGUARS

July 18, 2003 - BLM WILL SERVE OFF-ROAD INDUSTRY BY ALLOWING UNRESTRICTED USE AT SAND MOUNTAIN DESPITE DOCUMENTED SIGNIFICANT RESOURCE DAMAGE.

July 14, 2003 - GRAZING ON PACIFIC VALLEY FLATS SUSPENDED DUE TO PROTECTED SPECIES IMPACTS

July 7, 2003 - FEDERAL JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN ARIZONA
WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS LAWSUIT

July 7, 2003 - Bush Plan to Roll Back Dunes Conservation Faces Broad Challenge
12 groups, local citizens target BLM off-road plan that would harm wildlife & air quality

June 26, 2003 - ARIZONA FIRE FACTS FOREST SERVICE CONTINUES TO PRIORITIZE LOGGING OF REMOTE AREAS RATHER THAN PROTECTING COMMUNITIES: A COMPARISON OF TWO ARIZONA NATIONAL FORESTS

June 26, 2003 - ARIZONA FIRE FACTS: BUSH ADMINISTRATION ALLOCATES LESS MONEY TO COMMUNITY PROTECTION TREATMENTS AS FIRE DANGER GROWS

June 25, 2003 - Federal Court Upholds Off-Road Vehicle Ban at Algodones Dunes - Industry loses anti-environmental lawsuit; court says 'no merit' to claim of no need for closure

June 24, 2003 - Bush Administration Faces Legal Challenge to 3.2M Acre California Desert Off-Road Plan - BLM's W. Mojave ORV Plan would reduce conservation; harm wildlife and air quality

June 20, 2003 - Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Environmental Groups, Native American Elder in Wild and Scenic Rivers Lawsuit - North Fork Eel River to Receive Increased Protection

June 20, 2003 - ARIZONA FIRE TRAGEDY SHOWS FAILURE OF BUSH LOGGING PLAN : URGENTLY NEEDED COMMUNITY PROTECTION TREATMENTS MOTHBALLED DUE TO LACK OF FUNDING

June 19, 2003 - GROUPS FILE SUIT TO PROTECT GULF COAST

June 17, 2003 - PUSH TO RESTART COMMERCIAL WHALING MEETS RESISTANCE BY SCIENTISTS

June 10, 2003 - Federal Lawsuit Filed to Protect Rare Puerto Rico Coqui Frog

June 9, 2003 - Groups request reform of Mexican wolf reintroduction program, cessation of wolf killing and meeting with Interior Secretary Norton

June 9, 2003 - GRUPO MEXICO/ASARCO ORDERED TO REMOVE INDUSTRIAL TRESPASS ON IRONWOOD NATIONAL MONUMENT

May 28, 2003 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO LAUNCH ATTACK ON ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: Claiming poverty, proposal would gut critical habitat protections

May 23, 2003 - MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT FILED ON ENVIRONMENTAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGING ESA DECISION ON PUGET SOUND ORCAS

May 21, 2003 - Restoration Vision for Nation’s Forests Unveiled by Conservation Groups and Restoration Practitioners

May 20, 2003 - HOUSE TO VOTE ON FIRE LEGISLATION GUTTING ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REMOVING CITIZENS FROM DECISIONS ON PUBLIC LANDS, WHILE FAILING TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES

May 15, 2003 - CITIZENS TO CHALLENGE SEC. NORTON’S ILLEGAL DENIAL OF ESA LISTING: BUSH ADMIN. TO FACE JUDGE FOR NOT PROTECTING SONORAN DESERT LIZARD

May 8, 2003 - Renzi’s “Golf Course and Garden Rider” Threatens Environment, Fort Huachuca

May 5, 2003 - CONSERVATIONISTS SET TO SUE OVER DELAY IN PROTECTING ALASKA'S SEA OTTERS

April 30, 2003 - GROUPS DENOUNCE 'SLAP ON WRIST' CHARGES IN KILLING OF CONDOR AC-8: CITIZEN PROSECUTION OF KILLER VOWED

April 21, 2003 - Department of Interior Engineers Budget Crisis- Won’t Comply With Court Orders to Protect 21 Million Acres

April 16, 2003 - BUSH/NORTON PLAN WOULD LEAVE PYGMY OWLS OUT OF CRITICAL HABITAT

April 7, 2003 - CONSERVATION GROUPS PETITION FOR STATE PROTECTION OF THE WESTERN BURROWING OWL

April 2, 2003 - PETITION FILED TO LIST TWO SOUTHWEST FISH SPECIES

April 1, 2003 - LAWSUIT AIMS FOR PROTECTION OF VANISHING SIERRA AMPHIBIAN: Groups claim species relegation to "bureaucratic purgatory" is illegal

March 31, 2003 - Conservation Groups Challenge Threat to Steelhead Protections

March 18, 2003 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Reclassifies Gray Wolf Populations

March 17, 2003 - NM Senate Judiciary Committee tables "Little Red Riding Hood" bill

March 17, 2003 - SONOMA COUNTY TIGER SALAMANDER PROTECTED UNDER FEDERAL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

March 15, 2003 - GROUPS CHALLENGE APPROVAL OF NEW TELESCOPE ARRAY IN CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST WITHIN THE SANTA RITA MOUNTAINS

March 7, 2003 - CONSERVATION GROUPS, FOUNDATION PLEDGE OVER $30,000 TOWARD REWARD FUND TO CAPTURE KILLER OF CALIFORNIA CONDOR

March 6, 2003 - Pentagon Seeks Major Environmental Exemptions

March 6, 2003 - Livestock Off 248,000 Desert Acres for Spring to Protect Tortoise & Other Wildlife

February 26, 2003 - CITIZEN GROUPS SUE FOREST SERVICE OVER GRAZING FEE

February 25, 2003 - CONSERVATION GROUPS SUE TO PROTECT RIO GRANDE CUTTHROAT TROUT STATE FISH OFNEW MEXICO HEADING FOR EXTINCTION

February 24, 2003 - CBD challenges Arizona water policy aiding developers, imperiling San Pedro

February 24, 2003 - GROUPS APPEAL “SALVAGE” TIMBER SALE ON NORTH RIM OF GRAND CANYON

February 20, 2003 - LAWSUIT TO BE FILED TO PROTECT GREEN STURGEON ANCIENT FISH REDUCED TO 3 KNOWN SPAWNING POPULATIONS

February 18,2003 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION SUED FOR REFUSING TO IMPLEMENT CLINTON DECISION TO PROTECT ENDANGERED STURGEON FROM MONTANA DAM

February 17, 2003 - PROTECTION DENIED FOR ANOTHER ENDANGERED SIERRA AMPHIBIAN: Conservationists File Notice of Intent to Sue

February 12, 2003 - California Spotted Owl Gets No Help Form Bush Administration

February 6, 2003 - CBD APPEALS PROPOSED RIO PEÑASCO TIMBER SALE ON LINCOLN NATIONAL FOREST: APPEAL SEEKS TO BLOCK LOGGING OF LARGE TREES, DOES NOT AFFECT 23,600 ACRES OF APPROVED SMALL TREE (LESS THAN 9 INCHES) THINNING

February 5, 2003 - ROAD CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT WITHIN ARIZONA WILDERNESS AREA HALTED BY CONSERVATIONIST APPEAL

January 28, 2003 - PACIFIC COAST LAMPREY SPECIES PETITIONED FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES LISTING

January 23, 2003 - State OHV Commission Denies $1.1M to BLM Due to Poor Dunes Management Law enforcement request was fully funded last month; management plan in question

January 15, 2003 - JUDGE BLASTS FEDS FOR EXCLUDING 8.9 MILLION ACRES OF FOREST FOR CRITICAL HABITAT, ORDERS NEW DESIGNATION

January 3, 2003 - Bush administration denies legal protection of flat-tailed horned lizard

December 18, 2002 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service targets non-depredating wolves for trapping and removal from wild

December 12, 2002 - PETITIONS FILED TO LIST 12 PUGET SOUND PRAIRIE SPECIES AS “ENDANGERED”: PRAIRIES ARE PUGET SOUND’S MOST ENDANGERED, MOST FORGOTTEN ECOSYSTEM

December 12, 2002 - Citizens Move for Endangered Species Act Protection for Endemic Algodones Dunes Beetle

December 10, 2002 - FEDS ACKNOWLEDGE SIERRA AMPHIBIAN IS ENDANGERED, ILLEGALLY DELAY PROTECTION

December 3, 2002 - Suit filed to protect California's sea turtles in El Nino year

November 14, 2002 - GROUPS FILE LAWSUIT TO PROTECT GREEN STURGEON

November 14, 2002 - Federal Fisheries Service Denies Petition to Protect Imperiled Rockfish

October 29, 2002 - Desert Art Show Highlights Public Lands - Tour Hits Southern Arizona November 2 - 23

October 24, 2002 - STUDY FINDS FULL COST OF FEDERAL GRAZING PROGRAM MAY EXCEED $500 MILLION

October 18, 2002 - LAWSUIT FILED TO STOP NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEISMIC RESEARCH IN MEXICO

October 15, 2002 - CONSERVATIONISTS CALL ON NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TO HALT SEISMIC RESEARCH IN MEXICO: HIGH INTENSITY AIRGUN BLASTS LINKED TO WHALE DEATHS IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA

September 16, 2002 - Livestock Off 500K Acres for Fall to Protect Tortoise & Other Wildlife

September 13, 2002 - BLM Lobbies for Off-Road Industry by Pushing Politics Into Dunes Planning Process

September 4, 2002 - Environmental Groups & Cabazon Indians Join Together to Save Salton Sea Bush Administration Failing to Protect California's Largest Inland Body of Water

August 14, 2002 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILS TO UPHOLD MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION LAW, GROUPS SAY: CONSERVATION GROUPS SUE TO STOP THE UNNECESSARY KILLING OF MARINE MAMMALS IN FISHING GEAR

August 6, 2002 - LAWSUIT WOULD CHALLENGE GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE TO PROTECT PUGET SOUND ORCA WHALES - Fisheries Service: Resident Whales in Puget Sound Not "Significant"

July 16, 2002 - SONOMA COUNTY TIGER SALAMANDER PROTECTED UNDER FEDERAL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

July 11, 2002 - FOREST SERVICE REPORT CONFIRMS THAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS TARGET OLD GROWTH TIMBER SALES, WHILE ENCOURAGING THINNING AND BURNING OF SMALL TREES

July 8, 2002 - Tribal Runners Join Zuni Leaders to Stop SRP's Fence Lake Coal Strip Mine

July 8, 2002 - PUEBLO GOVERNORS AND ALLIES UNITE TO STOP SRP'S FENCE LAKE COAL STRIP MINE

July 8, 2002 - JUDGE ORDERS CRITICAL HABITAT PROTECTION FOR EIGHT IMPERILED PLANTS OF THE CALIFORNIA FLORISTIC PROVINCE

June 28, 2002 - FOREST SERVICE MISSED OPPORTUNITY TO THIN FOREST WITHIN RODEO-CHEDISKI FIRE

June 27, 2002 - Lawsuit filed to protect endangered sea turtles in the Pacific

June 26, 2002 - CONSERVATIONISTS CHALLENGE NEVADA LAND SALE

June 25, 2002 - FISHERIES SERVICE: PUGET SOUND ORCAS NOT SIGNIFICANT

June 24, 2002 -STATE PRESSURED FOREST SERVICE TO HALT FUELS REDUCTION PROJECT IN RODEO BURN AREA

June 24, 2002 - GOVERNOR HULL SCAPEGOATS ENVIRONMENTALISTS FOR LARGEST FIRES IN ARIZONA HISTORY

June 20, 2002 - CONSERVATION GROUPS PETITION SECRETARY NORTON AND NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TO REGULATE HUNTING IN MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE

May 30, 2002 - CONSERVATIONISTS FILE FORMAL PROTEST OF VICEROY GOLD PATENTS WITHIN MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE AND BLM CALIFORNIA DESERT CONSERVATION AREA

May 23, 2002 - SAND DUNE LIZARD PETITIONED FOR LISTING AS ENDANGERED SPECIES: RARE NEW MEXICAN LIZARD DEVASTATED BY HERBICIDE SPRAYING AND OIL AND GAS DRILLING

May 8, 2002 - CONSERVATION GROUPS PETITION TO LIST THE RELICT LEOPARD FROG AS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES

May 7, 2002 - NEWBORN MEXICAN WOLF PUPS REMOVED FROM GILA

May 7, 2002 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS TO SUE ARMY CORPS FOR FAILING TO PROTECT ENDANGERED KOOTENAI RIVER WHITE STURGEON: LIBBY DAM LEADING TO EXTINCTION OF ANCIENT FISH

May 2, 2002 - FISHERIES SERVICE FAILS TO MEET DEADLINE TO PROTECT ORCAS

May 1, 2002 - STEELHEAD NOW PROTECTED IN LOS ANGELES, ORANGE AND SAN DIEGO COUNTIES: FISHERIES SERVICE DECISION FOLLOWS CONSERVATIONISTS' LAWSUIT

May 1, 2002 - COURT HALTS NAVY'S ILLEGAL BOMBING AT FARALLON DE MEDINILLA

April 24, 2002 - Environmental Community Rejects Defense Department Attempt to Sidestep Laws: DOD uses last-minute changes to seek broad exemptions from environmental laws

April 20, 2002 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUE FEDS OVER DEVELOPMENT PERMITTING IN PYGMY-OWL HABITAT

April 18, 2002 - Conservationists Send 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management : Allege that Failure to Prevent Mexican Gray Wolves from Scavenging on Livestock Carcasses Imperils Species

April 12, 2002 - COURT RULES MILITARY EXPANSION THREATENS SAN PEDRO RIVER: WATER CONSERVATION PLAN DEEMED INADEQUATE, EXPANSION APPROVAL STRUCK DOWN

April 4, 2002 - PESTICIDES IN CALIFORNIA IMPERIL ENDANGERED SPECIES: Lawsuit Claims EPA's Pesticide Registration Program Harms the California Red-legged Frog

April 2, 2002 - Visionary Conservation Plan Debuts for the Southern California National Forests

March 28, 2002 - "Most Illegal Place in the World" May be Opened to More Off-Road Abuse Under Draft BLM Plan All Protected Dunes Areas Could Be Opened to Motorized Destruction

March 22, 2002 - LAWSUIT RESULTS IN SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT PROTECTING WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS IN THE LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST

March 21, 2002 - LAWSUIT FILED TO DESIGNATE 1,200 RIVER MILES AS CRITICAL HABITAT FOR ENDANGERED SONGBIRD IN NM, AZ, UT, AND CA

March 20, 2002 - Federal Judge Finds U.S. Military in Violation of Migratory Bird Treat Act over Navy Bombing of Pacific Island

March 19, 2002 - LEGAL CHALLENGE TO DANVILLE DEVELOPMENT: WENDT RANCH PROJECT JEOPARDIZES ENDANGERED SPECIES

March 13, 2002 - Rep. Stump drafting bill to gut conservation of Agua Fria National Monument

March 7, 2002 - APPEAL STOPS TIMBER SALE ON NORTH RIM OF GRAND CANYON

March 6, 2002 - MOJAVE SPRING GRAZING RESTRICTIONS IN EFFECT TO PROTECT DESERT TORTOISE ON HALF A MILLION ACRES

March 4, 2002 - GROUPS SUE BLM TO FORCE LONG-OVERDUE STUDY OF POTENTIAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS

March 4, 2002 - SOUTHERN UTAH TIMBER SALE APPEALED BY CBD, EIGHT OTHER GROUPS

February 28, 2002 - REPORT FINDS 10 MOST THREATENED WILD PLACES IN CALIFORNIA

February 25, 2002 - SCIENTISTS CALL ON BOXER, FEINSTEIN TO PROTECT IMPERILED KILLER WHALES: Letters Support Petition to List Southern Residents as “Endangered”; Urge Senators to Monitor NMFS and Express Support for ESA Listing

February 20, 2002 - NMFS REFUSES TO PROTECT HABITAT FOR WORLD’S MOST IMPERILED WHALE

February 11, 2002 - CONSERVATION GROUPS HALT GRAZING EXPANSION IN LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST

February 11, 2002 - PUBLIC LAND MANAGERS SUED: Feds Ignoring Off-Road Vehicle Laws; results in damage to soils and wildlife

January 31, 2002 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION ALLOWING EXTINCTION OF CALIFORNIA AMPHIBIAN: GROUP SUES TO PROTECT SONOMA COUNTY TIGER SALAMANDER

January 31, 2002 - BLM REASSIGNS KEY SO. CAL. MANAGER AFTER POLITICAL PRESSURE BY OFF-ROAD AND LIVESTOCK INTERESTS

January 30, 2002 - Endangered Species Listing for Kootenai River Burbot Sought by Conservationists

January 22, 2002 - Conservation groups disappointed in breakdown of Ironwood National Monument trespass negotiations with mining giant ASARCO/Grupo Mexico.

January 16, 2001 - CONSERVATION GROUPS FILE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO MASSIVE INLAND EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Legal Challenge to the Lytle Creek North Project

January 11, 2002 - LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT HABITAT FOR NEARLY EXTINCT LA AREA FISH: MASSIVE PROPOSED GRAVEL MINE, URBAN SPRAWL AND WATER PUMPING THREATEN ONCE ABUNDANT UNARMORED THREESPINE STICKLEBACK

January 8, 2002 - Center files lawsuit challenging Arizona's water laws

December 22, 2001 - ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE FIGHTS PUBLIC LAND GRAZING ON BIG SUR COAST

December 20, 2001 - CONSERVATIONISTS TAKE TO THE SAND IN DUNES DEFENSE MISSION: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AT DUNES STEPPED UP OVER HOLIDAYS.

December 14, 2001 - GREEN STURGEON MOVES CLOSER TO PROTECTED STATUS

December 13, 2001 - SIERRA NEVADA AMPHIBIANS MAY GET ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTIONS: Court places Yosemite toad and yellow-legged frog in study queue

December 13, 2001 - Defense Authorization Bill Passes With Provision to Expand Ft. Irwin; Conservationists Decry Loss of Wildlife and Wilderness.

December 12, 2001 - LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT SAN ANTONIO’S AQUIFER AND ENDANGERED CAVE SPECIES

December 12, 2001 - CENTER OFFERS $5,000 REWARD FOR APPREHENSION OF WOLF KILLERS

December 10, 2001 - GROUPS FILE WILD AND SCENIC RIVER LAWSUIT TO PROTECT NORTH FORK EEL RIVER

December 10, 2001 - BLM protects endangered Peninsular Ranges bighorn sheep lambing habitat from off-road vehicles and unauthorized mining

November 28, 2001 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION WEAKENS PROTECTIONS FOR NEW NATIONAL MONUMENTS

November 15, 2001 - ENVIRONMENTAL LAWSUIT SEEKS CRITICAL HABITAT PROTECTION: FOR EIGHT IMPERILED PLANTS OF THE CALIFORNIA FLORISTIC PROVINCE

November 15, 2001 - Lawsuit Filed to Protect Michigan's Neglected Wild and Scenic Rivers: Six Years Later, Six Rivers Still Waiting for Federally Mandated Action

November 5, 2001 - SCIENTIFIC REPORT: ROADLESS AREAS PROVIDE LAST REFUGE FOR NATIVE TROUT IN THE WEST

October 25, 2001 - WHALES STILL WAITING FOR CRITICAL HABITAT PROTECTION: Conservationists Going Back to Court to Compel NMFS to Protect Habitat

October 22, 2001 - SUIT FILED TO ENFORCE PROTECTIONS FOR SIX ENDANGERED SPECIES ON 55 NATIONAL FOREST GRAZING ALLOTMENTS

October 17, 2001 - CONSERVATIONISTS SEEK DESERT PROTECTION MEASURES IN DEFENSE LEGISLATION; MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RECEPTIVE TO THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT FT. IRWIN EXPANSION

October 10, 2001 - BLM public land sale appealed in southern Nevada

September 26, 2001 - SUIT FILED TO PROTECT OVER 750 MILES OF POTENTIAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS IN ARIZONA

September 20, 2001 - COALITION MOVES TO PROTECT NATIONAL PRESERVE FROM LAND GRAB

September 19, 2001 - SUIT FILED TO HALT HUGE LAND TRADE BETWEEN ASARCO AND BLM

September 13, 2001 - CONSERVATION GROUPS FILE LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL OAK VALLEY DEVELOPMENT: Lawsuit Cites Impacts to Water Supply, Traffic, Local Quality of Life, and Rare Wildlife

September 10, 2001 - Colorado River Delta Needs More Water: Stakeholders From U.S. and Mexico Release Principles to Guide Restoration

September 7, 2001 - U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT PUTS MOJAVE GRAZING RESTRICTIONS IN FULL EFFECT TO BENEFIT TORTOISE, CONSERVATION GROUPS BACK BLM

September 6, 2001 - CONSERVATIONISTS READY FOR FURTHER LEGAL ACTION TO PROTECT MOJAVE DESERT TORTOISE FROM LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY

August 29, 2001 - HISTORIC AGREEMENT REACHED TO PROTECT 29 IMPERILED SPECIES FROM COAST TO COAST

August 27, 2001 - GROUPS SUE TO OVERTURN INADEQUATE CRITICAL HABITAT DESIGNATION FOR MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL

August 24, 2001 - JUDGE HANDS DOWN DECISION IN DESERT GRAZING APPEALS, UPHOLDS LEGAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION ARGUMENTS. BLM TO CONSULT MORE WITH PARTIES. AGENCY MANAGERS HAVE TWO WEEKS TO IMPLEMENT GRAZING COURT ORDER OR FACE CONTEMPT BACK IN FEDERAL COURT

August 16, 2001 - FENCE LAKE MINE PERMIT RENEWAL APPEALED SALT RIVER PROJECT WANTS COAL FOR CORONADO GENERATING FACILITY

August 15, 2001 - GROUPS FILE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING PETITION FOR CENTRAL VALLEY VERNAL POOL CRUSTACEAN: Petition demonstrates that the Midvalley Fairy Shrimp is in danger of extinction and listing.

August 8, 2001 - REPORT: COLORADO RIVER DELTA CLAM IS DISTINCT SPECIES - SPECIES JEOPARDIZED BY U.S. DAMS

August 7, 2001 - ENVIROS TO CONGRESS: WATER TRANSFER WILL SPAWN NEW SAN DIEGO URBAN SPRAWL

August 2, 2001 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION DELAYS RULES TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SEA TURTLES AND WHALES: ENVIRONMENTALISTS FILE NOTICE AGAINST FISHERIES SERVICE OVER CALIFORNIA DRIFT GILLNET FISHERY

July 30, 2001 - BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT BEGINS DEFENSE OF GRAZING LIMITATION DECISIONS TO PROTECT DESERT TORTOISE, CONSERVATION GROUPS BACK BLM

July 26, 2001 - GILA NATIONAL FOREST POST-FIRE SALVAGE TIMBER SALE APPEALED FOR THIRD TIME

July 26, 2001 - GROWING COALITION OPPOSES ARMY LAND GRAB

July 25, 2001 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION DECLARES THAT THE WEST'S ONLY CUCKOO BIRD DESERVES ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROTECTION.....BUT USES LEGAL LOOPHOLE TO INDEFINITELY DELAY PROTECTION

July 23, 2001 - CONSERVATION GROUPS BACK BLM IN FEDERAL COURT ON GRAZING LIMITS TO PROTECT DESERT WILDLIFE

July 18, 2001 - UPDATED COMPUTER ANALYSIS SHOWS PUGET SOUND KILLER WHALES LIKELY TO BECOME EXTINCT IN 33-121 YEARS IF CONSERVATION ACTION NOT TAKEN IMMEDIATELY

July 16, 2001 - FORT IRWIN EXPANSION LEGISLATION BLASTED BY CONSERVATION COALITION; FRAGILE MOJAVE DESERT AT RISK

July 12, 2001- BLM LAND EXCHANGE WITH MINING GIANT ASARCO CHALLENGED

July 10, 2001 - BUSH ADMINISTRATION IGNORES COURT ORDER TO PROTECT LOS ANGELES-AREA FISH, RIVER HABITAT

July 5, 2001 - CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY FILES CALIFORNIA ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING PETITION FOR IMPERILED CALIFORNIA TIGER SALAMANDER

June 28, 2001 - BORDER PATROL PLAN TO BUILD "PANIC TOWERS" THREATENS WILDLIFE AND WILDERNESS IN CABEZA PRIETA REFUGE AS WELL AS INCREASING BORDER MILITARIZATION

June 12, 2001 - GROUPS FILE EMERGENCY ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING PETITION FOR SONOMA COUNTY POPULATION OF THE CALIFORNIA TIGER SALAMANDER

June 11, 2001 - IRONWOOD MONUMENT LAND DUMPED ON AND SOUGHT BY ASARCO CRITICAL FOR DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP LAMBING; MINING EXPANSION PUTS KEY POPULATION AT RISK

June 11, 2001 - PROTECTED STATUS SOUGHT FOR PREHISTORIC FISH: Conservation Groups Petition To List the Green Sturgeon as Endangered

June 1, 2001 - NMFS ANNOUNCES CRITICAL HABITAT MAY BE WARRANTED FOR PACIFIC POPULATION OF NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE

May 31, 2001 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUE FOR SIERRA AMPHIBIAN PROTECTION

May 31, 2001 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP APPEALS HUGE FIRE SALVAGE TIMBER SALE

May 30, 2001 - CITIZENS & LEADERS TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ON THREATS TO IRONWOOD NATIONAL MONUMENT; DEMAND OPEN PROCESS FROM KOLBE, HULL & NORTON

May 30, 2001 - BUSH PLAN A DEATH WARRANT FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES...PROPOSAL WOULD GUT CITIZEN ENFORCEMENT OF ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

May 29, 2001 - WHITE ABALONE LISTED AS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES

May 29, 2001 - BLM CLOSES SURPRISE CANYON TO OFF-ROAD VEHICLES TO PROTECT RARE SPECIES, WILDERNESS VALUES & WATER QUALITY.

May 22, 2001 - NMFS ANNOUNCES CRITICAL HABITAT DESIGNATION MAY BE WARRANTED FOR BOWHEAD WHALE

May 10, 2001 - BLM Violates Court Order on Tortoise Protection Federal Judge Gives Secretary Norton Two Weeks to Comply

May 10, 2001 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS PETITION TO ADD KITTLITZ'S MURRELET TO ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST

May 9, 2001 - NEW MEXICO NATIONAL FORESTS DESIGNATE 100 RIVERS AND STREAMS AS ELIGIBLE FOR WILD AND SCENIC RIVER STATUS

May 9, 2001 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP, LOCAL CITIZENS TO CHALLENGE SCOTTSDALE AREA DEVELOPMENT:PROPOSED SUBDIVISION, GOLF COURSES THREATEN VERDE RIVER BALD EAGLES

May 2, 2001 - CASE FILED TO PROTECT SEA TURTLES AND MARINE MAMMALS OFF CALIFORNIA FROM LOGNLINE FISHING

May 1, 2001 - PETITION FILED TO LIST SOUTHERN RESIDENT KILLER WHALE AS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES --CONSERVATIONISTS DECLARE 'MAYDAY' FOR PUGET SOUND'S IMPERILED KILLER WHALE POPULATION

May 1, 2001 - ENDANGERED ARROYO TOADS CONFIRMED ON NEWHALL HOLDINGS -- GROUPS SUE TO HALT DESTRUCTION OF HABITAT ALONG SANTA CLARA RIVER

April 30, 2001 - U.S. DESIGNATES 23,903 ACRES IN SAN MATEO AND SANTA CLARA COUNTIES AS ‘CRITICAL HABITAT' FOR BAY CHECKERSPOT BUTTERFLY

April 25, 2001 - U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE AGREES IN COURT FILING TO TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT VENTURA MARSH MILK-VETCH/LISTING TWO DECADES OVERDUE

April 18, 2001 - REPORT: 95% of Bay Area Endangered Species Listings Prompted by Citizen Actions

April 11, 2001 - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS WIN APPEAL OF GRAZING IN RINCON WILDERNESS

April 5, 2001 - TUCSON GREEN GROUPS UNITE FOR EARTHWAKE: Rally around local and national environmental issues puts hope into grassroots activism

April 5, 2001 - CENTER CONVENES FIRST CALIFORNIA DESERT FORUM STRATEGY RETREAT IN THE EAST MOJAVE.

April 4, 2001 - VANISHING FISH SPECIES RECEIVES RECOVERY BOOST :CRITICAL HABITAT’ FOR ARKANSAS RIVER SHINER DESIGNATED: 1,148 MILES OF ARKANSAS RIVER SYSTEM TO RECEIVE ADDED PROTECTION

April 4, 2001 - GROUPS CALL FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF LIBBY DAM, PROTECTION OF ENTIRE KOOTENAI RIVER WATERSHED TO SAVE ENDANGERED STURGEON

April 4, 2001 - CALIFORNIA'S WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS AT RISK: LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST FAILS TO PROTECT BIG SUR, SISQUOC RIVERS AND SESPE CREEK AS MANDATED BY FEDERAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT

March 29, 2001 - BUSH & NORTON’S BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT IGNORING GRAZING AGREEMENT TO PROTECT DESERT TORTOISE

March 26, 2001 - COLORADO GROUPS TO JOIN MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL CRITICAL HABITAT SUIT

March 16, 2001 - EAST BAY HILLS GET REPRIEVE

March 12, 2001 - GROUPS TO SUE FOR SIERRA AMPHIBIAN PROTECTION

February 14, 2001 - GRAND CANYON FOREST PARTNERSHIP ABANDONS CAP ON LOGGING OF LARGE TREES

February 13, 2001 - APPEAL SHUTS DOWN GILA NATIONAL FOREST FIRE SALVAGE SALE FOR SECOND TIME

February 12, 2001 - CONSERVATIONISTS SET TO SUE TO PROTECT ENDANGERED WHALES

December 20, 2000 - ENVIRONMENTALISTS APPEAL SALVAGE TIMBER SALE ON GILA NATIONAL FOREST

November 27, 2000 - FOREST SERVICE REJECTS SETTLEMENT OFFER ON FORT VALLEY APPEAL

November 15, 2000 - CONSERVATIONISTS SET TO SUE TO PROTECT ALASKA'S SEA OTTERS

November 14, 2000 - SUIT SEEKS PROTECTION FOR THREATENED SNAKE AND FROG IN EAST BAY: Luxury Homes and Golf Course Called ‘Sprawl' not Smart Growth

November 14, 2000 - ENVIRONMENTALISTS & U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AGREE TO PROTECT LARGE AREAS OF THE ALGODONES DUNES FROM OFF-ROAD VEHICLES IN FIRST ACTION FOR CALIFORNIA DESERT LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT

November 9, 2000 - ENVIRONMENTALISTS, BLM & OFF-ROADERS AGREE TO PROTECT THE ALGODONES DUNES FROM OFF-ROAD VEHICLES

October 23, 2000 - CHALLENGE TO LIVESTOCK GRAZING ON 1.8 MILLION ACRES OF NATIONAL FOREST IN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO

October 19, 2000 - FOREST SERVICE FAILS TO PROTECT NINE THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES FROM LIVESTOCK GRAZING IN ARIZONA

October 4, 2000 - CRITICAL HABITAT DESIGNATION SOUGHT FOR WORLD'S MOST ENDANGERED WHALE

October 3, 2000 - ALAMEDA WHIPSNAKE GETS 400,000 + ACRES OF CRITICAL HABITAT: Additional federal protection for East Bay snake