threatened species

Washington’s Western gray squirrels are in trouble. So much so that state officials are considering uplisting the squirrels from threatened to endangered.

A once-rare flowering prairie plant has recovered enough in Washington and Oregon to be removed from the federal Endangered Species List.

A rare plant in Washington only grows in one place in the world: At the Hanford Reach National Monument. Researchers hope to grow more Umtanum desert buckwheat at the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy near Yakima.

In a growing number of Northwest prisons, inmates are rearing endangered plants, butterflies, turtles and frogs for release in the wild.It started just…

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is postponing a controversial decision on whether to list the Mazama pocket gopher as a threatened species in the South…

An ankle-high plant with a funny name is stirring up controversy in southeast Washington. The federal government is considering whether to list a…

The federal government has pushed back the possible threatened listing of two rare plants that could affect farmers in southeast Washington. Umtanum…

Farmers in southeast Washington packed a County Commission hearing Tuesday morning in Pasco. They’re angry because a flowering desert plant called the…

A songbird called the streaked horned lark has a curious propensity for risky neighborhoods. That's not a good quality for a bird proposed for listing as…