Let’s hope the students who made us aware of hellbenders are not discouraged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s ...

In a reversal of its previous stance, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the Eastern hellbender as an endangered species, capping a lengthy quest by conservationists and ...

Could the eastern hellbender salamander become the newest endangered species in Tennessee? It's possible. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to ...

The Center has been working to secure federal protection for hellbenders for years. In 2010 we filed a scientific petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list 404 Southeast aquatic, ...

NEW YORK— In response to a lawsuit filed by five conservation groups, a federal judge found today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2019 denial of Endangered Species Act protection for the ...

More: Rare hellbender salamander in Western NC faces calamity from Helene's floods The proposed rule will not immediately be put into effect. After being proposed on Dec. 13, the Fish and Wildlife ...

Since 2006, the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (CWI) has been studying and working to conserve the Eastern hellbender, a species of giant salamander native to the eastern United States.

the eastern hellbender. The species was in trouble even before the hurricane hit. Based on data gathered prior to Helene, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a Dec. 10, 2024, proposal to ...

Based on data gathered prior to Helene, the US Fish and Wildlife Service issued ... The very strongholds that were left for hellbenders were exactly the same places that were hit hardest by ...

As one of the original “Hellbender Defenders,” I am ecstatic that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing to include the eastern hellbender under the Endangered Species Act.

But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed giving hellbenders protection under the Endangered Species Act, a move that gives them long-sought protection. In this June 18, 2014 ...