endangered species list

Two freshwater mussels native to parts of the Midwest and East have been placed on the federal endangered species list.

State management of wolf populations in Michigan has been put into effect after the animals in the western Great Lakes region were removed from the federal endangered species list.

With more than 4,000 gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, the federal government said the wolf could be removed from the Endangered Species List.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A butterfly that was once a common sight in Iowa is a candidate for protection on the Endangered Species List, but some experts say it may already be too late.According to The Gazette in Cedar Rapids , the Poweshiek skipper was added to the list this year after its apparent disappearance from Iowa and neighboring states.

A small salamander found only in southwestern Indiana could win protection under a proposal to add it to the state's endangered species list.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hosts a public meeting in northern Minnesota on Tuesday night on its latest proposal to take the gray wolf off the endangered species list Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Ranchers in Western states said they're hopeful the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list will make it easier to hunt the predators and stem losses of cattle and sheep.

Permits for planned wolf hunts sold briskly in Idaho on Thursday, as most wolves in the Northern Rockies were officially removed from the endangered species list and conservationists sued over the unprecedented removal of protection by Congress.

The gray wolf will become the first creature ever taken off the U.S. endangered species list by an act of Congress, rather than by scientific review, under legislation sent to the White House on Thursday.

A rider in the federal budget bill that takes gray wolves off the endangered species list across most of the Northern Rockies would keep protections intact in Wyoming, at least for now.