Search results for pallid sturgeon

Plants & Animals Jun 17, 2021

Predicting the spread of invasive carp using river water flows

For more than two decades, Duane Chapman, a fish biologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), has been chasing the spread of invasive carp, a family of fish originally from Europe and Asia, which individually ...

Ecology Jan 13, 2021

Environmentalists fight move to reduce beetle's protections

An environmental group said Tuesday that it plans to sue the U.S. government over a decision to reclassify a large scavenging beetle as threatened instead of endangered.

Plants & Animals Aug 19, 2020

In Missouri River, sturgeon don't look their age

In the lower Missouri River, a fish with prehistoric ties has learned to live hard—and, too often, die young.

Environment May 3, 2017

Montana dam, passage to save fish lacks funding

A federal agency targeted by President Donald Trump for budget cuts next year has only about half the money needed to build a new Yellowstone River dam and a bypass channel meant to save an endangered fish, but it plans to ...

Environment Feb 2, 2017

Judge asked to lift hold on Yellowstone dam and protect fish

U.S. officials are pressing a federal judge to lift his 2015 order blocking a proposed irrigation dam and fish passage on the Yellowstone River, warning that a rapidly-disappearing, ancient fish species faces a grim future ...

Ecology Aug 11, 2016

Officials skeptical $57M fish project will work

A group of Montana and federal wildlife officials has expressed opposition to a $57 million concrete dam and fish bypass that the U.S. government says would help an ancient and endangered fish species in the Yellowstone River.

Ecology Jan 5, 2016

APNewsBreak: US to consider alternative to Yellowstone dam (Update)

U.S. officials will consider an alternative to a dam proposed on the Yellowstone River over worries it could hurt an endangered fish species that dates to the time of dinosaurs, after a judge on Tuesday approved a settlement ...

Ecology Dec 21, 2015

Tentative agreement reached in dispute over endangered fish

Wildlife advocates reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. government in a legal dispute over an endangered fish in the Yellowstone River along the Montana-North Dakota border.

Ecology Jul 30, 2015

Endangered pallid sturgeon larvae found in Missouri River

Three fish larvae captured from the Missouri River last year have been confirmed as those of the endangered pallid sturgeon, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.

Environment Jun 20, 2015

Battle over proposed Yellowstone River dam ramps up

An escalating legal fight over a $59 million federal dam project on Montana's lower Yellowstone River could decide the fate of an endangered, dinosaur-like fish population that has been blocked from its spawning grounds for ...

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