The northern Pacific rattlesnake, which, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife states, is common throughout the northern part of the state and is venomous. Rattlesnake sightings near the Coyote Valley Dam at Lake Mendocino have prompted U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff to post signs advising the public to watch for snakes.

Fifteen states are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a Louisiana landowner's attempt to keep the government from listing 1,500 forest acres as essential to an endangered frog. A 2-1 June ruling upheld a district judge's decision that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was within bounds in declaring the land part of a critical habitat for dusky gopher frogs, now found only in Mississippi.

Community members and an environmental group on Wednesday sued the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense and the secretary of defense over a plan to turn two Pacific islands into live-fire testing sites. The plan calls for using the islands of Tinian and Pagan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for military war games.

Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street following bigger losses in Europe as investors continue to grapple with the fallout of Br... The owner of a Hawaii jewelry and gift retail business is going to federal prison for six months because of a wildlife trafficking scheme.

Alaska Native and environmental groups on Monday petitioned the Interior Secretary to launch a formal investigation into whether pollution from mines in British Columbia is causing problems for wildlife across the border in Southeast Alaska. The groups pointed to a 1971 amendment and several international agreements to argue that Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has a duty to launch an investigation into the potential Alaskan environmental impacts from six hard-rock mines in British Columbia.

Attorneys for Georgia and Florida this week requested a trial date to resolve an ongoing dispute about water consumption from the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers.

In this photo taken April 20, 2016, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, accompanied by the committee's ranking member, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., speak about energy policy modernization during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional efforts to approve the first major energy bill in nearly a decade are in jeopardy amid a partisan dispute over oil drilling, water for drought-stricken California and potential rollback of protections for the gray wolf and other wildlife.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski visited Kenai on May 31 to hold a field hearing for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that she chairs on how federal management conflicts with local management on the Kenai Peninsula. Wildfire management drove much of the conversation, but federal land management that limits access to fishing and hunting were also major points.

The Humane Society rescued these tigers from a roadside zoo in Missouri and had them moved to a legitimate sanctuary in Cleveland. According to the latest estimates , there are approximately 3,890 tigers left in the wild, but experts say that there are more than that in captivity in the US alone.

On February 4, 2016, the United States and eleven other countries around the Pacific Rim finally signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership . The twelve signatories now have two years to ratify the agreement.