Sentences with phrase «by federal biologists»

A study in September by federal biologists found that wind turbines had killed at least 67 bald and golden eagles since 2008.

Here's a fascinating «Your Dot» followup to my post on the 17 - foot egg - bearing female Burmese python that was caught, tracked and euthanized by federal biologists working to understand the impact of this introduced predator on the Everglades and Florida.

A whooping crane raised by federal biologists and known as L8, was one of two such birds shot on Monday in Louisiana.

Not exact matches

Therefore federal and state biologists are scrambling to assess the impacts, using funds largely provided by DHS.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

That's what archeologists, wildlife biologists, and wetlands scientists who have gotten funding from a little - known transportation program will face with shrinking federal support if a massive highway bill approved by the U.S. Senate becomes law.

By transferring the gene for melanopsin into human embryonic kidney cells, synthetic biologist Martin Fussenegger of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and colleagues made these cells light - sensitive as well.

February 2016 — A census by federal and state biologists announced that the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico had dropped to 97 in 2015 from 110 in 2014.

April 26, 2016 — A coalition of wolf - conservation groups, environmental organizations and a retired federal wolf biologist announced a court settlement requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare its long - delayed recovery plan for Mexican gray wolves by November 2017.

[Oct. 2, 2012, 1:23 p.m. Updated Charles Monnett, the federal biologist at the heart of the investigation described below, has been cleared of scientific misconduct over his polar bear surveys (report link), but his case remains a source of disputes at several levels — as described in detail by Jill Burke in Alaska Dispatch.

Steven C. Amstrup, the federal biologist who led an analysis last year concluding that the world's polar bear population could shrink two thirds by 2050 under moderate projections for retreating summer sea ice, is once again in the field along Alaska's Arctic coast, studying this year's brood of cubs, yearlings and mothers.

To understand why such restrictions are vital, revisit my reporting on this remarkable reptile, which — released by pet owners over the years — have been feeding, breeding and spreading in south Florida, where the python has had a catastrophic impact on small mammals and wading birds, according to federal biologists.