A lesson to learn: The disappearance of bighorns from Pusch Ridge holds lessons for those trying to protect the region’s last native herd By Ty Bowers, tbowers@ExplorerNews.com July 5, 2006 –

A federal judge is considering whether to place a hold on removal of thepygmy owl from the endangered species list.

Some 90 percent of Arizona’s riparian areas have been lost–but the county has plans for a comeback

…The BLM manages 261 million acres, but only about one in every 16 acres has been surveyed for "cultural resources," a phrase that refers to evidence of mostly prehistoric human inhabitation…

PHOENIX — The pygmy owl will stay "delisted" at least until June 2, a federal judge decided Monday. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton declined environmentalists’ requests to put a temporary hold on the federal government’s mid-April decision to remove the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl from the endangered-species list…

Today is D-Day for the pygmy owl, more than nine years after it was listed as endangered by the federal government……

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A judge has declined environmentalists’ requests to put a temporary hold on the federal government’s decision to remove the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl from the endangered-species list…

The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ….

The removal from the endangered species list is scheduled to take place May 15, unless the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision is overruled in court.

Arizona Daily Star Tucson, A coalition of environmental groups says it will sue the federal government to restore the pygmy owl’s endangered status unless the government decides within a week to do that on its own.