Legislators and environmentalists are considering how to safeguard California’s wetlands after the Trump administration announced its plans to rein in — once again — the nation’s 53-year-old law ...

Save the Phoenix Wetlands volunteers focused on restoring and protecting vital wetlands along the Bear Creek Greenway in ...

The defendants also conducted prohibited activity in a wetland of national significance and were found to have caused harm in a culturally significant area. A commercial farming company and one of ...

You’re probably familiar with the concept of handedness—a glove made for your left hand looks basically like the one for your right hand, but won’t fit—it’s a mirror image. Many of life’s important ...

Credit: ALFAwetlands, WET HORIZONS, EU, Greifswald Moor Centrum, Public Domain In classic literature, wetlands—ecosystems characterized by permanently or periodically water-saturated land—have ...

Freske has been a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 37 years, spending the past 15 years as a project leader in the Morris Wetland Management District. The award was ...

The last time anyone in the state had officially documented the Appalachian grasshopper was in 1946, and the species was once thought to be extinct Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Field zoologist ...

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Wetlands are regions of land that are generally saturated with water. However, when rain causes water to pool on land, it does not constitute a wetland. More specifically, wetlands are areas where ...

Wildlife biologist Ben Vizzachero conducts a waterbird count at Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge. He lost his job at the Los Padres National Forest as part of a wave of firings ordered by the ...

A male panther tipped the scales at a whopping 166 pounds recently after biologist tracked down the big cat. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, says it's the largest ...

The layoffs affected a Yankton woman and she shared her story with Dakota News Now. Dr. Liz Renner is a Fisheries Biologist originally from Crooks. She found her dream job in Yankton working for the ...