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Fire Suppression on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska Will Be Tried as a Cost-Effective Measure to Combat Climate Change Baked with the around-the-clock summer sunlight and regularly peppered with lightning strikes, the Yukon Flats region in eastern...

Izembek Refuge Road / Land Exchange Update 04/08/2023 – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland withdrew a land exchange between the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation authorized by Secretary Bernhardt in July 2019. The Department determined the 2019 land...

Treaty to Protect Ocean Life 04/08/2023 – More than 190 countries have reached a landmark deal for protecting the biodiversity of the world’s oceans, agreeing for the first time on a common framework for establishing new protected areas in international waters. The...

New Secretarial Order on Bison Restoration 04/08/2023 – Secretary’s Order 3410 formally establishes a Bison Working Group (BWG), which will be composed of representation from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

Horseshoe Crab Harvest Prohibited on Many South Carolina Beaches to Protect Shorebirds 04/08/2023 – Dozens of critical habitat areas for threatened shorebirds will be protected after a U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina handed down an order prohibiting...