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Bird Litigation: Sonoran Desert Bald Eagle

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Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”), the agency that implements ESA as to birds. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.). Zinke , 2017 868 F.3d Fish and Wildlife Service. Species and subspecies are likely familiar to birders, but a DPS is not a taxonomically recognized term. Nor is “DPS” defined by ESA.

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Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering changing the status of the endangered Black-capped Vireo : it has proposed delisting it entirely. If your perception is tinted by politics, note that FWS proposed delisting during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration.). It winters on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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Donald Trump And His Cabinet Are Destroying Our Environment

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It began on Friday, February 17, 2017. Lets take a look at the Obama administration’s record on the environment. Now, thanks to Trump, Zinke and the GOP, tucked into the budget bill the Senate is likely to pass this week is a provision that could quietly open the door to drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.