POLITICIZED SCIENCE THE BANE OF THE MEXICAN WOLF
Study Dissects How Politics Skewed Science to Jeopardize Wolf Survival
Fish and Wildlife Service
News Releases
INTERIOR’S MUSICAL CHAIRS SPIN OUT OF CONTROL
Complaints Mount as Sagebrush Rebel Installed Over Wildlife and Parks
THE WOMAN FROM MONSANTO INSIDE INTERIOR
Former Executive Had Hand in Lifting GMO and Pesticide Bans in Refuges
FEDERAL SHUTDOWN BECOMING A POLLUTERS HOLIDAY
Humans and Wildlife at Risk by End of Critical Monitoring and Pollution Testing
WILDLIFE REFUGES TO ALLOW GM CROPS AND NEONIC INSECTICIDES
Reversal of National Ban Threatens Pollinators and Other Wildlife in Their Refuges
FLAKY GOP BILL FORFEITS MOST FEDERAL WILDLIFE PROTECTIONS
Senate Plan Would Put States in Charge of ESA and National Park & Refuge Wildlife
DISASTROUS 2018 BRINGS RECORD MANATEE DEATHS
In Less Than 2 Months, 154 Florida Manatees Perish, One-Third from Cold Stress
LEGAL CLOUD LOOMS OVER INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ACTIONS
Legitimacy of Acting Directors of Parks, BLM, and Fish & Wildlife Remains in Doubt
TEMPORARY INTERIOR DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS ILLEGAL
All Decisions by Acting Park Service, BLM, and Fish & Wildlife Heads Legally Void
ANOTHER LETHAL YEAR FOR FLORIDA PANTHERS IN 2017
Deaths Again Outstrip Litters with Heavy Toll on Females of Reproductive Age
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Swan Dive — Trumpeter Swan Restoration Trumped by Politics (August 2001) Swan Dive traces how the declining prospects for the survival of Greater Yellowstone's trumpeter swans have intertwined with decisions by the agencies charged with ensuring their survival. Unfortunatley, these decisions have imperiled this last native nesting population of trumpeters in the lower 48 states. more >> |
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Sitting Ducks — USFWS Assaults the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (June 1998) According to its own law enforcement personnel, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is bowing to intense political pressure to allow unethical hunting techniques, principally baiting, which they believe will facilitate detrimental over-harvesting of migratory game birds. The Special Agents are outraged by what they see as their agency's retreat from strong enforcement against hunting practices which contradict the principles of fair chase and damage the very resource whose survival makes recreational hunting possible. more >> |
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Grizzly Science — Grizzly Bear Biology in the Greater Yellowstone (October 1997) Experts from various state and federal agencies chronicle the conflict between the practice of wildlife biology and the reality of bureaucratic politics within public resource agencies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Their professional experiences exhibit common problems of bureaucratic dysfunction, including suppression of science, falsification of information, and harassment of those working to ensure the survival of the grizzly bear. more >> |
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Noah's Ark is Leaking — The Department of Interior Abandons International Species Protection (May 1997) The FWS has abandoned its legal obligation to protect international threatened and endangered species. There has been a decade-long de facto moratorium on the listing of foreign species. Commercial interests abuse the process by importing rare animals. more >> |
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Tarnished Trophies — The Department of Interior's Wild Sheep Loophole (October 1996) According to its own specialists, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is driving protected foreign game species to extinction through the illegal issuance of permits to import game trophies. Despite mandates to enforce both the Endangered Species Act and international conservation treaties, the Assistant Directorate for International Affairs (AIA) within the Fish & Wildlife Service is promoting importation of sports-hunted trophies of threatened and, in some cases, endangered species. more >> |
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2005 Politics Trumps Science At U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
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1998 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Law Enforcement Survey |
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Craig Manson for Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks |
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PEER Campaign: Scientific Integrity |