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Endangered Species - Delisting Rule Vacated on March 25, 2011



Scientific Name: Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus

Press Releases

Flying squirrel glides back on to endangered species list - The Wilderness Society

Court Gives Endangered Status Back to West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel, Rules That Recovery Plans Must Be Followed - The Center for Biological Diversity

News Articles

Court reverses removal of flying squirrel from endangered list
Charleston Gazette - Ken Ward Jr  - ‎CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal judge has reversed the US Interior Department's decision in 2008 to take the West Virginia northern flying squirrel off the endangered species list.

-Judge: Fish and Wildlife wrongly ignored own rules in delisting W.Va. northern flying squirrel - Washington Post - A federal judge says the US Fish and Wildlife Service ignored its own unambiguous rules when it decided to end more than two decades of protection for the West Virginia northern flying squirrel and remove it from the endangered species list in 2008.

Television

Court Ruling Returns West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel to Endangered Species List - WOWK (Charleston/Huntington, WV) A March 25 federal court decision has restored federal legal protection for the West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel.

Judge: Feds wrongly delisted W.Va. flying squirrel - WRIC (Richmond VA) - (AP) - A federal judge in Washington, DC, has overturned the Interior Department's decision to remove the West Virginia northern flying squirrel from the endangered species list.

Judge: Flying Squirrel Shouldn't Have Been Removed from Protected List WHSV (MORGANTOWN,) W.Va. (AP) - A federal judge in Washington, DC has overturned the Interior Department's decision to remove the West Virginia northern flying squirrel from the endangered species list.

Blogs

Court overturns removal of West Virginia northern flying squirrel from federal endangered species list March 28, 2011 by Ken Ward Jr. on Sustained Outrage (A Gazette Watchdog Blog)

Squirrel Victorious: Judge Restores Protections of Endangered Species Act from WE-blog: Wildlife and Environment Blog Created by the public interest law firm Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal in Washington, D.C.

Hokey smoke! Rocky's endangered - again March 29, 2011 by Tim Wheeler of B'More Green: An Environmental Blog for Everyday Living (The Baltimore Sun)

 

 

 

 

 

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