Endangered Species Bulletin articles from July 1999

Endangered Species Bulletin archives from July 1999

Saving Endangered Species on Indian Lands.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... American Indian lands in the lower 48 States comprise over 54 million acres, and Alaskan Native lands add approximately 45 million acres. Much of this acreage remains relatively wild and unspoiled. Home to more than 550 tribes, these lands...

Sensitive Species: Part of the Circle.
July 1, 1999... One Apache story tells of how Coyote went looking for Big Owl's home so that he could trick him and steal his cap. Today, trained Apache youth work as field technicians to find Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) locations, not to...

Apache Trout: On the Brink of Recovery.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Tucked away in the cold, high-elevation streams on White Mountain Apache homelands in Arizona, the threatened Apache trout (Oncorhynchus apache) has existed for thousands of years. But trouble has shadowed this handsome fish for the last 100...

Keeping an Eye on Eagles.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Coaxed from the large crate she had been transported in, the young bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) hopped out cautiously onto the gravel embankment overlooking the San Carlos River in eastern Arizona. Six weeks earlier, she had been found...

Restoring the Gray Wolf in Idaho.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... In March of 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) entered into a precedent setting cooperative agreement with the Nez Perce Tribe to restore the gray wolf (Canis lupus) to Idaho. This is the first time the Federal government has...

Recovering Summit Lake's Lahontan Cutthroat Trout.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... For centuries, the Numa (or "People") have relied upon the land and other resources of the northern Great Basin. Numa are better known now as the Northern Paiute (meaning "water over there") Indians. The Numa, taibo ("white people"), and agai...

The Beaver and the Flycatcher.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) was native to the southwestern United States on most streams having permanent water. Beavers provide many benefits to other species of wildlife in this semi-arid region. By constructing dams, they...

Plant Conservation on the Navajo Nation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... The Navajo Nation encompasses 17.5 million acres (28 million hectares) of the Colorado Plateau in northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. Its dramatic landscape ranges from desert scrub to sub-alpine conifer...

Biodiversity on the Yakama(*) Indian Nation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Since 1997, the Yakama Indian Nation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Department of the Army, Bureau of Land Management, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and six other land management agencies in the State of Washington have...

Conservation on Seminole Lands in Florida.
July 1, 1999... Imagine being driven hundreds of miles from your home, a land of temperate climate with fertile hills and valleys and bountiful game, into a steamy, subtropical world of water, muck, and mosquitoes that no one else wanted. That is what happened...

A Spectacular Summer for Birds.
July 1, 1999... by staff of the Washington, D.C., Office of Public Affairs "It's a spectacular summer for America's great birds, the bald eagle, the Aleutian Canada goose and the peregrine falcon," Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said in late summer of...

Bald Eagle Recovery in the Lower 48 States.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... From an original wild population perhaps numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) declined earlier in this century to such low levels that listing our national bird throughout most of the lower 48 states...

REGIONAL NEWS & RECOVERY UPDATES.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) regional endangered species staffers have reported the following news: Region 1 Oregon Spotted Frog(Rana pretiosa) Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) biologist Engler (reviewers, we're checking...

LISTING ACTIONS.
July 1, 1999... During April and May of 1999, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published the following Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing actions in the Federal Register: Emergency Listing Rule ...

ON THE WEB.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Creature Feature The FWS Endangered Species Program has launched a new web site attraction: the Creature Feature. Each month, we will profile a lesser known endangered or threatened plant or animal. The first feature was on the endangered...

BOX SCORE.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... Listings and Recovery Plans as of August 31, 1999 ENDANGERED THREATENED GROUP U.S. FOREIGN U.S. FOREIGN MAMMALS 61 250 8 16 BIRDS 74 ...