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USFWS December 2025 Review of Refuges, Monuments, and Hatcheries
Richard J Wenning, Wenning Environmental LLC, Portland, Maine, US Published on JD Supra, 07 January 2026 ABSTRACT: Without much public announcement, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) ordered a top-to-bottom review on December 16, 2025, of the nation’s federal...
“Oh, Give Me a Home, Where the Buffalo Roam…”
Richard J Wenning, Wenning Environmental LLC, Portland, Maine, US Published on JD Supra, 25 November 2025 ABSTRACT: The management of American bison in the US is fraught with legal, ecological, and political debates arising from the movement of wild and managed herds...
Owls and Ethics in the US Pacific Northwest
Richard J Wenning, Wenning Environmental LLC, Portland, Maine, US Published on JD Supra, 04 November 2025 ABSTRACT: On November 3, 2025, the US Senate voted to reject H.J. Resolution 120, which would have blocked the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (F&WS) Barred Owl...
Update From Major Tom: Cape Canaveral Gets a FONSI
Richard J Wenning, Wenning Environmental LLC, Portland, Maine, US Published on JD Supra, 20 September 2025 ABSTRACT: On September 2, 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Mitigated Finding of No Significant...
Was Major Tom’s Space Mission Reviewed Under NEPA?
Richard J Wenning, Wenning Environmental LLC, Portland, Maine, US Published on JD Supra, 27 August 2025 ABSTRACT: David Bowie, Star Trek, and SpaceX. What do they have in common? Each mission departs from Earth. What’s likely different, however, is how the NEPA...
PFAS, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Richard J Wenning, Wenning Environmental LLC, Portland, Maine, US Published on JD Supra, 12 August 2025 ABSTRACT: A clever title highlights one of many ongoing challenges facing the scientific and regulatory communities with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: how to...