Subject: Endangered Species

• A Split Decision for Mighty Mouse

  November 1, 2007

• Shmuck

  May 15, 2008

• Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

  April 2, 2009

• Environmental group rips Obama's choice of Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary

  Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental groups are considerably less than thrilled. Among those NPR-piece participants painting Salazar as a crony of "very traditional, old-time, Western extraction industries" was Kieran Suckling of Tucson's C

  December 17, 2008

• Salazar hearing a lovefest among chums

  You might expect a confirmation hearing for a new Secretary of the Interior to be tough going, given the multiple scandals and vast challenges facing the agency after years of Bush administration bumbling and plundering. After all, the Department of the Interior manages a fifth of the land in the country, much of its strategic energy resources and natural wonders, a sizable hunk of offshore oil reserves, and much, much more. You'd expect a lot of sticky questions about endangered species,

  January 15, 2009

• Best New Animals at the Denver Zoo

  April 4, 2002

• Best Corral for Decommissioned Grocery-Store Penny Ponies

  March 27, 2003

• Get ready for the Gunnison sage grouse

  The Waunita Lek near Gunnison, mating grounds for a large group of Gunnison sage grouse, is open for public viewings, and bird watchers will have good news to share with the rare species, which puts on an unusual and exotic springtime dance. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will reconsider an April 2006 decision not to list the Gunnison sage grouse as an endangered species, according to a notice filed in March with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The grous

  April 2, 2009

• Going, Going, Gone

  Will the first new American bird discovered in a hundred years be the next to go extinct?

  May 22, 2008

• He Walks With the Animals

  Maybe Jasper Carlton is a radical -- or maybe he's ahead of his time.

  June 17, 1999

• A Gopher in Your Pocket?

  Douglas County's very own gopher is the latest endangered-species hopeful.

  March 20, 2003

• Exhibit A

  Where it's always showtime

  February 20, 2003

• A Wing and a Prayer

  The peregrine falcon is back -- and falconers want to get their hands on the bird.

  November 22, 2001

• The Missing Lynx

  This Colorado biologist became an endangered species at the Fish and Wildlife Service.

  October 11, 2001

• Art Beat

  Michael Paglia's brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

  May 11, 2000

• A Bird in the Hand

  The fate of the northern goshawk--and the timber industry--could rest with Richard Reynolds. He's not out of the woods yet.

  November 26, 1998

• Of Mice and Men

  What the battle to save an obscure rodent says about the cost of front range growth.

  November 27, 1997

• Building a Better Mousetrap

  January 20, 2005

• Exxon-Mobil: admitted bird killers

  Talk about paying at the pump.​Exxon-Mobil had a bad day in court in Denver yesterday. The firm pleaded guilty to killing migratory birds in five states, including Colorado. The size of the fine and community-service payments Exxon-Mobil has agreed to pony up -- $600,000 -- is, to use an avian reference, chicken feed given the profits the company has reaped in recent years. Nonetheless, the corporate behmoth is also having to invest in a plan to prevent such slayings in the future. These p

  August 14, 2009