There's a plan to kill thousands of owls in Washington. Some lawmakers want to stop it.
In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers asked the agency to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred ...
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Alligators in Washington State? Not quite, as Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife catches fake one in Cowlitz County
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW ... As a reminder releasing non-native species into Washington state waters is illegal, not to mention inhumane to the species who cannot ...
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Washington is the first place in the world to remove and ban this fish farming practice
according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Net pens are used to grow native and non-native fish species as a food source. Following the failure of the net pen near ...
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Nutria? These are invasive species you can catch and eat
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species -- eat them. Last month, the federal agency posted an article about "5 Invasive Species You Can Hunt ...
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Lawsuit Seeks Endangered Species Act Protections for Washington’s Sand-Verbena Moth
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today seeking Endangered Species Act protections for sand-verbena ... populations found in dunes along the Salish Sea in Washington ...
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Petition Seeks Endangered Species Protections for Washington’s Cascade Red Fox
PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Cascade red fox under the Endangered Species Act. The Washington ...
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Western Washington's Chehalis Basin Strategy, Investing in Flood Control and Species Revival
The Chehalis Basin Strategy is a collaborative effort in Western Washington to reduce flood damage and restore aquatic ...
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As DNR passes ban on net pen fish farming, other agencies push back
the state banned net pens for non-native species, so aquaculture companies shifted to farming native species, like steelhead. In 2022, activist group Wild Fish Conservancy took the Washington ...