Endangered Species Act

After conservation groups took legal action on behalf of monarch butterflies, the Trump administration decided to delay a final decision on tapping federal Endangered Species Act protections.

Federal wildlife managers say a butterfly once found in part of Eastern Montana is a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act.

Wolverines will receive protections while the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers listing them under the Endangered Species Act.

Advocacy groups are asking the federal government to issue emergency protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, the only gray wolf population not on the Endangered Species List.

The Thick-leaf Bladderpod could be listed as an endangered species.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon filed a petition this week to remove federal protections on grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

The plan lays out population goals and a management plan should the federally protected Yellowstone grizzly be delisted in the future.

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 3-2 to increase wolf harvest by allowing neck snaring and trap baiting statewide, night hunting on private land and other changes to the season. The new rules permit “aggressive” hunting measures not seen in Montana for decades.

The chair of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee penned a letter Wednesday saying its Bitterroot subcommittee improperly closed its meeting to the public earlier this year

A federal judge in Missoula has ruled the Flathead National Forest violated the Endangered Species Act by removing a rule that limits road-building in grizzly bear habitat.