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Environmental Issues: Wildlife

Rule Protecting National Forest Wildlands Is Vindicated in Court
News: In December 2002, a federal appeals court lifted a stay on the implementation of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a landmark forest-conservation measure that the timber industry and its allies have fought tooth and nail. Will the Bush administration enforce it, or undermine it?
In Hot Water
OnEarth: Out in Montana the drought is in its seventh year, the weather's gone loony, and the temperature of the state's iconic trout streams is inching steadily higher. Reporting from Montana, George Black examines common ground between environmentalists, anglers, ranchers, and other locals concerned about the threat that global warming poses to coldwater habitat and native species in the Rocky Mountains.

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Report Announces Top 10 Species Imperiled by Fossil Fuels: posted by Elly Pepper, 1/27/12
Millions of bats have died due to whitenose syndrome: posted by Sylvia Fallon, 1/18/12
Bats get a gift of hope this holiday season: posted by Sylvia Fallon, 12/20/11