News Releases

Official updates from FOC

2025

5/7/25 — Rescinding the ESA Definition of Harm

The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to rescind the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, excluding habitat modification, degradation, and destruction from the definition of harm to a species. This would dismantle one of the express purposes of the Act, which is to "provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered [...] and threatened species depend may be conserved."

Read our full comment here.

  • 1/8/25 — Grizzly bear ESA listing update
  • 1/8/25 — President Biden withdraws national old-growth amendment
  • 1/10/25 — Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests Forest Plan Signed

2024

  • 7/18/24 — Report finds that the proposed Nez Perce-Clearwater forest plan could emit millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from logging, roadbuilding, and grazing, harming an already warming planet

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