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Posted: 4/26/2013 2:53:44 PM EST
FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf. Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, which would end a decades-long effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, File)
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Posted: 4/2/2013 1:38:21 PM EST
In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a Wood Thrush bird is shown. Biologists say the current boom in gas drilling and pipeline construction threatens northeastern forests and some of the songbirds and creatures that live in them, and that more can be done to minimize the harm. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 10:38:32 AM EST
This undated photo provided by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department shows a New England cottontail rabbit. Wildlife officials say the New England cottontail could soon face extinction, due to diminishing shrublands across the Northeast. The only rabbit species indigenous to the region lost more than 80 percent of its habitat over the last 50 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with state agencies and private organizations from Maine to New York to restore its natural habitat and save an animal that is a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act.(AP Photo/ New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, Victor Young)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 10:38:32 AM EST
This undated photo provided by New Hampshire Fish and Game Department shows a New England cottontail rabbit. Wildlife officials say the New England cottontail could soon face extinction, due to diminishing shrublands across the Northeast. The only rabbit species indigenous to the region lost more than 80 percent of its habitat over the last 50 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with state agencies and private organizations from Maine to New York to restore its natural habitat and save an animal that is a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act.(AP Photo/New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, Heidi Holman)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 10:38:32 AM EST
This undated photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a New England cottontail rabbit. Wildlife officials say the New England cottontail could soon face extinction, due to diminishing shrublands across the Northeast. The only rabbit species indigenous to the region lost more than 80 percent of its habitat over the last 50 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with state agencies and private organizations from Maine to New York to restore its natural habitat and save an animal that is a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Linda Cullivan)
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Posted: 3/26/2013 5:48:21 PM EST
FILE - This undated file image provided by Yellowstone National Park, Mont., shows a gray wolf in the wild. Western environmental groups say they're alarmed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a plan to end federal protections for gray wolves in areas where the animals no longer exist. (AP Photo/National Park Service, MacNeil Lyons, File)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 2:43:30 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 photograph, a loggerhead turtle stunned by the cold is weighed at the Sea Turtle Hospital at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, S.C. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Friday, March 22, 2013, it was designating about 175 miles of shoreline along the Carolinas coast as habitat critical to the recovery of the threatened turtles. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 2:43:30 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 photograph, Kelly Thorvalson, manager of the Sea Turtle Hospital at the South Carolina Aquarium, moves a loggerhead sea turtle stunned by the cold off New England to a tank in the aquarium in Charleston, S.C. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Friday, March 22, 2013, it was designating about 175 miles of shoreline along the Carolinas coast as habitat critical to the recovery of the threatened turtles. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
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Posted: 2/22/2013 1:03:28 PM EST
This undated image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows an aerial view of coastal waters and landmass at the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Izembek Lagoon is 25 miles of Alaska ocean sheltered from the Bering Sea by long barrier islands, but it's what's beneath the water that makes it special for environmentalists. The shallow lagoon is home to the largest known bed of eelgrass, a plant that grows like green ribbons from the ocean floor and every autumn provides a nutritious buffet for waterfowl that spend summers in Alaska or Russia and head south for warmer climates. (AP Photo/USFWS)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 10:23:18 PM EST
This undated image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Arlluk after it sank at the pier in St. Herman's harbor in Kodiak, Alaska, Friday Feb. 8, 2013. Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Kodiak personnel responded to the sinking and are assisting with pollution mitigation and salvage of the vessel. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Klingenberg)
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Posted: 2/1/2013 12:03:36 PM EST
This undated image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a wolverine. Add the tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving predator sometimes called the "mountain devil," to the list of species the government says is threatened by climate change. Federal wildlife officials on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, will propose Endangered Species Act protections for the rare animal in the lower 48 states, a step twice denied under the Bush administration. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Posted: 2/1/2013 9:13:50 AM EST
This undated image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a badger. Add the tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving predator sometimes called the "mountain devil," to the list of species the government says is threatened by climate change. Federal wildlife officials on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, will propose Endangered Species Act protections for the rare animal in the lower 48 states — a step twice denied under the Bush administration. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Posted: 1/28/2013 6:48:25 PM EST
File-This Jan. 2003 handout file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a 130-pound gray wolf as it watches biologists in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., after being captured and fitted with a radio collar. Montana wildlife officials say they're abandoning efforts attempts to shut down wolf hunting and trapping just outside the gates of Yellowstone National Park. The move comes after a judge ruled earlier this month that not enough notice was given when two areas totaling about 60 square miles were briefly closed to hunters and trappers. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, William Campbell, File)
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Posted: 11/30/2012 7:23:18 PM EST
A lesser prairie-chicken is seen in this undated handout photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS on Friday announced a plan to consider having the lesser prairie-chicken listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. The move by U.S. authorities to consider placing the bird native to parts of the oil and gas belt on the Endangered Species List has drawn the ire of some western lawmakers. REUTERS/US Fish and Wildlife Service/Handout
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Posted: 11/30/2012 7:23:18 PM EST
A lesser prairie-chicken is seen in this undated handout photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS on Friday announced a plan to consider having the lesser prairie-chicken listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. The move by U.S. authorities to consider placing the bird native to parts of the oil and gas belt on the Endangered Species List has drawn the ire of some western lawmakers. REUTERS/US Fish and Wildlife Service/Handout
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Posted: 11/30/2012 6:15:49 PM EST
A lesser prairie-chicken is seen in this undated handout photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS on Friday announced a plan to consider having the lesser prairie-chicken listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. The move by U.S. authorities to consider placing the bird native to parts of the oil and gas belt on the Endangered Species List has drawn the ire of some western lawmakers. REUTERS/US Fish and Wildlife Service/Handout
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Posted: 11/30/2012 6:15:49 PM EST
A lesser prairie-chicken is seen in this undated handout photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS on Friday announced a plan to consider having the lesser prairie-chicken listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. The move by U.S. authorities to consider placing the bird native to parts of the oil and gas belt on the Endangered Species List has drawn the ire of some western lawmakers. REUTERS/US Fish and Wildlife Service/Handout
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Posted: 10/10/2012 3:03:25 PM EST
This undated image supplied by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows bison at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo., with the Rocky Mountains in the background. The park, which opens a nine-mile do-it-yourself Wildlife Drive Oct. 13, was built on a former Superfund site just outside of Denver. (AP Photo/Josh Barchers/DPRA)
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Posted: 10/10/2012 3:03:25 PM EST
This undated photo supplied by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows fall color at a lake in Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. The park, which opens a do-it-yourself nine-mile Wildlife Drive Oct. 13, is located just outside of Denver. (AP Photo/Rick Keen/DPRA)
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Posted: 10/10/2012 3:03:25 PM EST
This undated image supplied by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows bison at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo., with the Denver city skyline in the distance. The park, which opens a nine-mile do-it-yourself Wildlife Drive Oct. 13, was built on a former Superfund site just outside of Denver. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Walter Derr)
