U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
January 31, 2010--Tough choices follow in wake of invasive species (Washington Post)
Which is worse? Closing two locks on a waterway that's used to ship millions of dollars' worth of goods from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi basin? Or allowing a voracious Asian carp to deplete the food supply of native fish sustaining a Midwestern fishing industry that nets $7 billion a year?
January 7, 2010--Feds take flack over water releases for Colo. fish (Denver Post)
Federal officials say endangered fish trump other fish and the anglers who chase them when it comes to flows on the Fryingpan River in western Colorado. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S.
September 14, 2009--Regional councils key to feds' climate change response (Environmental News Service)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today signed an order establishing eight
regional Interior Department Climate Change Response Centers to
coordinate and develop strategies to cope with climate change impacts
on public lands, fresh waters, oceans, fish, wildlife, and cultural
resources.
August 22, 2009--Fish & Wildlife Service: Front Range pipeline study must address fish (Sky Hi Daily News)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a proposal to pump water from
the Green River in Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range could threaten
federally protected fish species. The wildlife agency says an
environmental study needs to determine if the Green River can provide
water for the pipeline and other water projects while still maintaining
suitable flows for fish.
August 13, 2009--D.C. to the rescue: Preserving pikeminnow, chubs and desert vistas (Colorado Independent)
Washington took steps to preserve some critical Colorado natural resources Wednesday, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on hand for the dedication of the new Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Are
- Agriculture
- Bonytail Chub
- Bureau of Land Management
- Colorado
- Colorado Pikeminnow
- Department of Interior
- Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area
- Endangered Species
- Humpback Chub
- Irrigation
- Press Clippings
- Razorback Sucker
- Ruedi Reservoir
- Ruedi Reservoir Water Allocation for Recovery of Engangered Fish Act
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
August 9, 2009--State introducing bugs to fight weeds in Arkansas Valley (Pueblo Chieftain)
The state is releasing bugs in the valley to knock back tamarisk, leafy spurge and bindweed as the summer growing season moves ahead.
July 5, 2009--Alamosa levee not up to snuff (Pueblo Chieftain)
The tree-studded levee that protects the city of Alamosa from the Rio Grande no longer is up to snuff, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
May 28, 2009--Judge orders new plan for dam releases into Grand Canyon (L.A. Times)
Federal officials must reconsider how they release water from Glen Canyon Dam into the Grand Canyon in order to protect an endangered fish, the humpback chub, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
May 2, 2009--EPA seeks rule for utilities' runoff (Washington Post)
Faced with new evidence that utilities across the country are dumping toxic sludge into waterways, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving to impose new restrictions on the level of contaminants powe
