fish and wildlife

The appointment of an Eastern Washington environmentalist to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has upset some rural officials, who say their small-town values are unfairly being pushed aside in favor of big-city views about what's best for nature.

Fish and Wildlife officers say Lesnar was charged Thursday with three counts of violating the Alberta Fish and Wildlife Act.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is studying 46 types of plants and animals in South Carolina to determine whether they should be given special protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Roger Gordon, one of two U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologists from Genoa, Wisc. holds two of the endangered Higgins eye pearlymussel near Spring Lake, about four miles south of Savanna, Ill.

Conservation groups are seeking a court order to stop the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife from shooting two of the state's 14 wolves for killing livestock.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has new rules for hunters who wants to take deer across Illinois state lines into Iowa.

An 8-foot-long alligator sunk its teeth into a 90-year-old woman's leg and tried to drag her into a canal in southern Florida, a spokeswoman for the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.

Some environmental groups are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the eastern diamondback rattlesnake under the Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to expand the area of critical habitat set aside in six Western states for the endangered Southwestern willow flycatcher.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a high-elevation pine tree devastated by disease, beetles and climate change warrants greater protection under the Endangered Species Act.