SPOKANE — An emergency effort to save endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits will get its first test next week when state and federal scientists release nearly two dozen of the animals back into ...

EPHRATA – Wildlife managers are monitoring 32 endangered pygmy rabbits evacuated from a state-managed breeding facility scorched by a wildfire last week in Douglas County near Quincy. Two of those ...

BEEZLEY HILLS PRESERVE, Grant County — Wildlife biologist Miranda Crowell hunches over the cold, cracked dirt of the Washington shrub-steppe to inspect a moist pellet that is central to her obsession ...

The future of Washington’s pygmy rabbits is holding on by a whisker. More accurately, that future remains in the hands of a few researchers and whether enough protected areas can be found to relaunch ...

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The U.S. Geological Survey, Boise State University and the University of Idaho are partnering to use UAS technology to gather data on the landscape habitat of pygmy rabbits. Pygmy rabbits dig ...

In today's release, the USFWS noted that ''the pygmy rabbit may warrant federal protection as a threatened or endangered species.'' The announcement relates to pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) ...

EPHRATA - It's Easter, but don't mention that famous egg-hiding bunny to pygmy rabbit savior Penny Becker. "This is all about conservation and recovery out here," Becker said last week at the ...

ENDANGERED SPECIES-- Up to 100 pygmy rabbits—from captive-breeding facilities and from the wild in Oregon—will be released in Washington's Douglas county in the continued effort to reestablish the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 9—A new gift of land to The Nature Conservancy, 282 acres near Quincy, will help secure a future for the endangered Columbia ...

Sometimes success comes in the tiniest packages. Take the case of the , a species nearly extinct in 2002, when only 16 were known to exist in the wild. Biologists recently discovered that for the ...

EPHRATA — With pillow cases hanging from their back pockets, metal toilet snakes capped with tennis balls coiled in their hands and dirt covering their clothes, Dave Volson and Chad Eidson looked like ...