A lizard native to southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin was afforded the highest level of federal protections aimed at preventing its extinction, triggering concerns that landowners and ...
Oil and gas industry supporters worried conserving the rare lizard species in the Permian Basin could restrict industry access to land.
Federal wildlife officials declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species on May 17, ...
ODESSA — The dunes sagebrush lizard burrows its coarse, ... The Service proposed adding the lizard to the endangered species list again in 2010 but withdrew the proposal 18 months later.
The dunes sagebrush lizard lives in the same West Texas land that supports the state’s biggest oil and gas fields, and industry ...
More than 40 years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initially recognized the need for federal protections for the dunes sagebrush lizard, the agency has finally listed the tiny reptile ...
The dunes sagebrush lizard was recently added to the endangered species list by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, preventing it ...
The dunes sagebrush lizard has been added to the endangered species list over objections from the oil and gas industry in ...
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After more than a decade and several lawsuits, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday, May 17, that it is listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
The dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in the oil-rich Permian Basin, has been listed as endangered after a decades-long ...