Meadow jumping mice hibernate six to eight months of the year, emerging in mid-to-late spring to mate and replenish their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A first-of-its-kind venture in Colorado is bringing public and private entities together to sustain a tiny mouse whose habitat has shrunk as development, ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit (“10th Circuit”) addressed in an April 15th Opinion a challenge to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (“Service”) designation of ...

Friday, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal said the mouseis not genetically distinguishable from other mice and therefore not deserving of special protection. Freudenthal cited a study that Wyoming ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal court in New Mexico ruled against two cattlemen’s associations that wanted to overturn the designation of a critical habitat for the endangered New Mexico jumping meadow ...

That common name isn’t for nothing: New Mexico meadow jumping mice are amazing jumpers. Pushing off their big hind feet while keeping balance with their long tails, they can leap as far as 3 feet.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect riparian areas ...

ALBUQUERQUE — Biologists who spent weeks in three New Mexico national forests searching for signs of an elusive, endangered mouse that looks somewhat like a tiny kangaroo have found what they call ...