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        Category: Endangered Species Act
        by Gordon R. Smith on December 3, 2021

        A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) final rule that presumptively reinstates liability for incidental take under the Migratory Bird Treaty...

        by Scott D. Anderson on December 4, 2018

        You might assume that if an endangered species is nowhere to be found on your property, you can rest easy. “No,” said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

        by Gordon R. Smith on July 6, 2016

        The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has dealt another setback to the Cape Wind offshore wind power project by holding yesterday in Public...

        by Juliet T. Browne on April 1, 2016

        U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the “Service”) recently proposed revisions to its Mitigation Policy, which has been in place since 1981. March 8,...

        by Gordon R. Smith on January 13, 2016

        U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued its final rule under section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act regarding conservation measures for...

        by Gordon R. Smith on May 29, 2015

        Upon recommendation from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Governor Paul LePage signed a bill into law today listing three bat...

        by Gordon R. Smith on April 2, 2015

        The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will publish a final rule in today's Federal Register designating the northern long eared bat as...

        by Gordon R. Smith on March 12, 2015

        The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reportedly planning to issue a notice of intent to create an incidental take permitting regime under the...

        by Gordon R. Smith on February 23, 2015

        In an order issued Friday in Protect Our Lakes v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 1:13-cv-402 (D. Me. Feb. 20, 2015), U.S. District Court Judge Jon...

        by Gordon R. Smith on January 16, 2015

        The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed a rule that would exempt certain activities in certain locations from the prohibitions of the...

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