More than 40 years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initially recognized the need for federal protections for the dunes sagebrush lizard, the agency has finally listed the tiny reptile ...

A lizard native to southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin was afforded the highest level of federal protections aimed at preventing its extinction, triggering concerns that landowners and ...

Oil and gas industry supporters worried conserving the rare lizard species in the Permian Basin could restrict industry access to land.

The dunes sagebrush lizard lives in the same West Texas land that supports the state’s biggest oil and gas fields, and industry leaders say the new designation will hurt drilling and production.

The dunes sagebrush lizard lives in the same West Texas land that supports the state’s biggest oil and gas fields, and industry leaders say the new designation will hurt drilling and production. The ...

On Friday, May 17, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added the dunes sagebrush lizard of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas to the list of endangered species.The lizards are native to a small ...

After more than a decade and several lawsuits, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday, May 17, that it is listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

The dunes sagebrush lizard has been added to the endangered species list over objections from the oil and gas industry in ...

The dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in the oil-rich Permian Basin, has been listed as endangered after a decades-long ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today added the dunes sagebrush lizard of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas to the list of endangered species and pledged to follow up by ...

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