Feral hogs should be controlled by shooting and live trapping whenever possible. The greatest success usually occurs during the winter when feral hogs are forced to travel more to find food. In addition to rooting up pastures, feral hogs compete directly with white-tailed deer, turkey and most other wildlife species that rely heavily on acorns [...]
Songbirds and other wildlife species thrive in a variety of habitats. Therefore, it is desirable to provide as many different types of habitat as possible though manipulation of the your current plant communities. Bulldozing, prescribed burning, mowing, disking, and hand cutting of woody vegetation to “set back” the successional stage will allow for a variety [...]
Sheep grazing allotments in the Hells Canyon and Salmon River areas that were closed by the Forest Service in order to protect bighorn sheep, will stay closed. After closing allotments, the Service decided to allow grazing on the Allison-Berg allotment in November. But it then changed its position because the Nez Perce Tribe filed evidence [...]
The National Marine Fisheries Service announced a 90-day finding for a petition to reclassify loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the North Pacific Ocean as a Distinct
Population Segment (DPS) with endangered status and designate critical habitat under the ESA. The loggerhead is currently listed as threatened throughout its range.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated critical habitat for seven mussels: the endangered fat threeridge (Amblema neislerii), shinyrayed pocketbook (Lampsilis subangulata), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus penicillatus), Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus), and oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme); and the threatened Chipola slabshell (Elliptio chipolaensis) and purple bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus) under the ESA.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revised the 2005 proposed rule to delist the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei). It proposed to amend the listing for the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse to specify over what portion of its range the subspecies is threatened.
The best scientific and commercial data available demonstrates that:
The Preble’s meadow [...]
Weather permitting, the Texas Clipper is scheduled to be sunk off South Padre Island to create a new artificial reef November 15, 2007. The Texas Artificial Reef Program staff in the Coastal Fisheries Division of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) have been working for years on the Clipper project, the latest in a diverse [...]
