Group seeks protection for rare salamanders, frog
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A conservation group is threatening to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force action on petitions to give Endangered Species Act protection to four kinds of salamanders and a frog found in the Northwest.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice Wednesday of intent to sue, a prerequisite for actually suing the federal agency.
The notice says the service is more than a year late in deciding on petitions to protect the Cascades frog, the Oregon slender salamander and three species of torrent salamander. More than 200 scientists also called for a reviewing the amphibians' status.
The center says the amphibians are declining because of the introduction of non-native trout, pesticides drifting from farmlands, and logging.
The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A conservation group is threatening to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force action on petitions to give Endangered Species Act protection to four kinds of salamanders and a frog found in the Northwest.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice Wednesday of intent to sue, a prerequisite for actually suing the federal agency.
The notice says the service is more than a year late in deciding on petitions to protect the Cascades frog, the Oregon slender salamander and three species of torrent salamander. More than 200 scientists also called for a reviewing the amphibians' status.
The center says the amphibians are declining because of the introduction of non-native trout, pesticides drifting from farmlands, and logging.
The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The federal oversite committee for the Trinity River Restoration(25 years and ove $500,000,000) has DEGRADED the spawning grounds and it a total failure.Lets see-swim up the river over 100 miles-climb over the trinity dam-swim to the massive grating-remove the pump gratings,swim through the massive pumps that pump the water over 22 miles of mountains,swim across the lake and up whiskey creek to make red beds SO MUCH BLOODY BS------








