Subject: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• Whose Feathered Friends? Our Feathered Friends!

  March 18, 2009

• Turtle Power: Enviros Sue Government In S.F. Court For Alleged Failure To Shell Out For Leatherbacks

  A group of environmental organizations are not 'happy together' about the government's foot-draggingA trio (not a quartet) of environmental groups (not named after Renaissance painters) sued the U.S. government last week in San Francisco federal court, claiming the Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and others have pulled their head into their shells when it comes to protecting the leatherback and loggerhead turtles. Because these two species are knocking with both paws u

  June 2, 2009

• Save the Vetch! Enviro Groups File Bevy of Endangered Species Suits

  As George W. Bush and his James Watt-like environmental personnel exit, stage right, San Francisco environmentalists have fired a salvo of lawsuits aimed to hit their posteriors on the way out. Last week, Lisa Belenky, a San Francisco staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, filed a trio of lawsuits in local district court, part of a barrage of seven suits from the CBD and its legal allies regarding 19 endangered plants and animals. Among many other complaints, the CBD charges the

  January 20, 2009

• The Mission Blue Mission

  August 9, 1995

• Hope for Nature, Too

  December 31, 2008

• Mother Nature or Nurture?

  The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

  July 4, 2007

• Rural Cleansing

  Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

  October 3, 2001

• The Battle for Walpert Ridge

  A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

  February 14, 2001

• Political Economy

  How a Willie Brown real estate venture snagged tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies and opened the way for Democratic heavyweight Angelo Tsakopoulo to make even more money

  August 25, 1999

• Up a Tree. Still?

  November 11, 1998

• Whirly Birds

  The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

  March 29, 1995

• Petal Pushers

  February 22, 1995

• Just What You Always Wanted: A Webcam Capturing the Nonstop Action at -- the Farallones?

  Jim HerdWebcam, ahoy!Longtime listeners to San Francisco Giants broadcasts will be familiar with KNBR radio's ubiquitous catchphrase touting its broadcasting might: "From the Farallones to the Rockies..." Many a fan has probably stopped to wonder who, exactly, is catching those ballgames out on the Farallones? Whales? Don't be silly -- they like soccer. Perhaps its the lonely researchers from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. With a lifetime that solitary, baseball on the radio could become an u

  June 8, 2009

• Could Discovery of 'Extinct' Plant Toss Monkey Wrench Into Doyle Drive Rebuild?

  © California Academy of SciencesThe Franciscan Manzanita​The other day we reported on the apparent discovery of a Franciscan Manzanita in the Presidio -- the first wild specimen of the native San Franciscan plant spotted since 1947. But, in a development that appears to be ironic -- without any mention of diabetics being flattened by insulin trucks -- the manzanita is smackdab in the middle of the planned route for the billion-dollar Doyle Drive redesign.  According to Al Donner, an assi

  November 19, 2009