The county did not do its job to protect sensitive habitat and endangered species when approving the plan for a micro village for the homeless near Spanaway Lake, according to lawyers for Spanaway ...

Mt. Graham is known as a sky island, a mountain ecosystem surrounded by a “sea of desert.” Its isolation makes the Mt. Graham ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the tall-grass prairies that once spread out across pre-settlement Indiana, tiny ground squirrels scurried through the ...

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The Center for Biological Diversity and the Maricopa Audubon Society have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to protect habitat essential to ...

SPANAWAY, Wash. — The endangered western gray squirrel is the latest controversy surrounding a planned tiny home village in Spanaway. The multi-million dollar development for the homeless has been in ...

PHOENIX – An endangered squirrel species’ estimated population has plummeted since a major wildfire burned much of its habitat atop a southeastern Arizona mountain last summer. An annual multi-agency ...

An Arizona squirrel near extinction is getting some help from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which will consider adjusting the critical habitat area of the Mount Graham red squirrel to protect ...

Some see squirrels as adorable, bushy-tailed creatures that run in circles around tree trunks before they finally race up trees to the safety of the branches above to enjoy a snack while taking in the ...

The Mount Graham red squirrel population declined slightly in the past year despite a new counting method that more accurately locates the population, state officials said. The 2023 survey of the ...