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A meeting among Missouri River governors revealed significant disagreement with Montana over flood control, even as federal officials told the group that damage from this year's high water may make their states even more vulnerable next year.

Federal officials are readying plans to evacuate a small number of endangered species in Texas as a severe drought lowers water levels and threatens the survival of rare wildlife in the state's huge ecosystem.

Federal officials say BP has agreed to provide $1 billion for projects that will restore natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico damaged by last year's oil spill.

Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 1:41 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A survey set to get under way in January of the mountain plover in California is expected to help federal officials decide whether to list the bird as threatened.

Federal officials will divide about $161 million among 270 projects designed to improve the Great Lakes environment.

Federal officials want to keep nine kinds of constrictor snakes out of the United States, saying they belong to invasive species that pose the single biggest threat to the nation's environment.

Federal officials say that despite a court-ordered deadline, a final decision has not been made on whether to develop a recovery plan and set aside critical habitat for the elusive endangered jaguar.

Opponents of a plan to drill dozens of natural gas wells in the southwest Colorado mountains, including roadless forest land, accused federal officials Thursday of playing a shell game with public lands.

Black-tailed prairie dogs have been denied protection under the Endangered Species Act after federal officials said the once-ubiquitous ground squirrels show signs of rebounding from decades of habitat loss, casual shootings and other pressures.

Federal officials plan to propose changes to areas in Colorado designated as critical habitat for the Preble's meadow jumping mouse.