Transect Blog / Endangered Species Act

This is the first post of our new series "What They Said - What It Means," where we unscramble the jargon around an environmental topic and discuss what it really …

On July 16th, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced their 12-month plan to determine whether listing the dunes sagebrush lizard (DSL) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is warranted …

In an April 15 ruling in Northern Plains Resource Council, et al. v. USACE, a Montana judge vacated (cancelled) Nationwide Permit (NWP) 12 and enjoined (prohibited) the U.S. Army Corps …

This week, a federal judge overturned the threatened status of the northern long-eared bat (NLEB) and ordered U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to make a new listing decision. Background …

The Supreme Court’s Limited Ruling on Critical Habitat and the Endangered Species Act As we wrote about in October, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Weyerhaeuser v. USFWS, a case …

We recently wrote about proposed modifications to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that could change how agencies evaluate the threat levels for Endangered and Threatened Species. While the U.S. Fish …