Powell pool elevation of 3500’ will optimize smallmouth bass entrainment through Glen Canyon Dam as hydropower urges BOR to abandon cool mix flows suppressing their reproduction downstream. Decades of humpback chub recovery progress in the Grand Canyon hangs in the balance this year.
Colorado River decline is increasingly dangerous for Grand Canyon's humpback chub. Record low pool elevations at Powell mean far more bass passing through the dam, and hydropower is urging BOR to end cool mix-flows that suppress bass recruitment downstream.
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The feds are moving forward with plans to wall off the Big Bend region. Some reports say walls are "off the table" in the state park, but DHS hasn't canceled construction contracts or restored the legal protections they stripped.
Nobody is crossing here. Look at those cliffs.
The mountains from Mexico’s Sierra Madre northward through the Sky Islands to the Mogollon Highlands of AZ and NM once supported wolves, grizzlies, and jaguars. It’s heartening to see bi-national reintroduction programs and communities now piecing ecosystems back together.
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TERLINGUA, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Texas Civil Rights Project sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection today for withholding public records on plans to build border walls through the Big Bend region of Texas.
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The Center for Biological Diversity and Health Over Wealth Benson are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reject an air pollution permit for a proposed aluminum plant that could harm Arizona communities and the San Pedro River's biodiversity.
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Breaking: A federal court today ruled that federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by ignoring years of damage from illegal livestock grazing to desert stream habitat for endangered fish and birds in the Agua Fria National Monument in Arizona.
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A federal court has overturned four key provisions of regulations that weakened the Endangered Species Act, issued by the Trump administration in 2019 and retained under the Biden administration.
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In the last ~6 wks The Breakthrough Institute:
1. Filed an Amicus brief in the 9th Circuit supporting Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda;
2. Tacitly supported Trump’s rescission of EPA’s Endangerment Finding.
3. Blamed scientists for Trump’s attacks on climate science.
Conclude as you will.
Colorado River snowpack evolution since Oct 2025. Melt started about March 7. Down to 6 Inches now from 9 inches then. There is no historical analog.
This is a graph of snowpack above Lake Powell using 104 snow measuring stations. It was 9 inches of water
on March 7, now 6 inches. Other dry years shown.There is no historical analog to this.
The Center for Biological Diversity today filed notice of intent to sue the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over unauthorized cattle grazing damage to endangered species riparian habitat in Las Cienegas National Conservation Area.
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"The war and the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz are pushing more people to recognize that fossil fuel is politically as well as environmentally devastating."
An endangered Rice's whale cruises just under the water's surface in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA photo.
The Trump administration is preparing an end-run around the Endangered Species Act to benefit oil drilling that could drive a rare whale to extinction.
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BREAKING — More than 130 conservation groups, outfitters and rural Texas businesses urged Congress today to block federal funding for border wall construction in Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park.
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The Center for Biological Diversity, San Juan Citizens Alliance and Tó Nizhóní Ání took legal action against New Mexico today for failing to require hundreds of oil and gas operators to plug thousands of dangerous inactive wells.
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Big Bend border wall protest this morning in Terlingua, Texas, population 138. Rural Texas is not going to let this administration come lock their river behind a wall of steel.
Utah's congressional delegation is weaponizing the Congressional Review Act to upend Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument's management plan, undermining protections and promoting chaos.
Tell them no. Take action here.
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Consumer Advocates Could Derail Blackstone’s Utility Acquisition in New Mexico
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Poring over historical US jaguar records and arranging them in a timeline reveals most of the last females and cubs were in the Mogollon Highlands. This region, from Grand Canyon to the Gila - far north of the US/MX border - seems to have been jaguars' last remaining breeding population in the U.S.
The dam’s controlling biological opinion from 2016 anticipated this; it promised to evaluate dam modifications to stop invasive fish entrainment. Now, ten years later, that’s still not done. BOR needs a real plan for climate-inevitable deadpool and dam obsolescence — for people and endangered fish.
Reclamation’s power pool projection for Dec at Glen Canyon Dam sets up for more Upper Basin drought releases and less from Powell this year. But it’s also ominous for the Grand Canyon’s humpback chub; a low lake and warm water threaten to pull a dangerous new pulse of invasive bass through the dam.
A great perspective from Stephen Trimble on the Utah delegation's attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante.
Read it now: writersontherange.org/a-utah-monum...
Our take: “They’re popping champagne corks at the OPEC and GM headquarters but also in Beijing, where China’s EV makers will face no competition from the US to dominate the world’s clean car market.” Dan Becker @biologicaldiversity.org
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After field surveying 122 steam miles of the Tonto National Forest, the Center yesterday sued the Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service for allowing ongoing damage from illegal livestock grazing to endangered species habitat in 25 grazing allotments.
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The Center today sued the Bureau of Land Management and US Fish and Wildlife Service for illegally reapproving a highway through Utah's Red Cliff's National Conservation Area.
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I find it remarkable that Governor Lujan Grisham, time and time again, goes out of her way to accommodate the oil & gas industry--even when it means condoning legislation that would overturn complex rulemaking completed by her own regulatory commissions.
“We’ll keep fighting this high-speed roadway because it’s both unlawful and unwise to sacrifice important wildlife habitat on our protected public lands for more urban sprawl.”
- Lisa Belenky, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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When a motorsports outlet sounds the alarm about Utah's attempt to exert control over federal public lands, Gov Cox oughta listen.
Just like Mike Lee, Cox's goal here kick the public off our shared land & turn it over to industry pillage. Everyone opposes that.
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The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for denying Endangered Species Act protections to the Rio Grande cooter. These freshwater turtles’ fragmented range includes rivers in southern New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico.
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