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AUTHOR: US Fish and Wildlife Service Press Release

Emphasizing the need to conserve declining species long before they require the protection of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today released its Birds of Conservation Concern 2002 report. The report identifies more than 100 bird species that deserve prompt conservation attention to stabilize or increase populations or to secure threatened habitats. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service identifies birds of conservation concern »»

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AUTHOR: Dan Hansen, Spokesman Review Staff writer

The Nez Perce Tribe, which rarely appeals federal timber sales, has filed its second challenge over a single proposal in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho.

The tribe worries that the North Lochsa Face “forest restoration project” will foul streams that are important to native fish, tribal chairman Samuel Penney wrote in a press statement on Friday.

The project is designed to fix an area that foresters say is overly packed with stunted trees and brush, while simultaneously providing more browse for a declining elk herd. Nez Perce Tribe files new appeal of Bitterroot timber sale »»

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AUTHOR: Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Columnist

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OLYMPIA — The Bush administration picked a sunny day, with the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge as a bracing photo backdrop, to put a smiling face on its controversial environmental policies.

The face belonged to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who at her appearance yesterday linked President Bush with the Republicans’ greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, and peppered her remarks with references to “communication,” “consultation” and “cooperation.”

Norton did, however, flash the drill-bit teeth of Bush energy policies. She delivered a lengthy defense of the administration’s plan to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, greatest of the nation’s bird and animal sanctuaries. Bush smiles at environment, but teeth are fangs »»