11.   Northwest loggers were joined in the case by timber groups from the Southeast, where logging efforts have collided with habitat protections for the red-cockaded woodpecker.

12.   Ottawa retained key areas of authority, but the province got more clout over habitat protection and restoration, conservation and enforcement.

13.   Republicans want to scale back the law to give more weight to economic impacts of habitat protection.

14.   State officials hope to upgrade habitat protection by rewriting state shoreline guidelines, which prod counties to meet minimum standards for protection.

15.   The answers show the profound effect that simple rainfall has on nature -- and the benefits from habitat protection during drought years.

16.   The California appeals court threw out their lawsuit challenging habitat protections for two fish species.

17.   The Miller bill would improve habitat protection on federal lands, while the Senate bill creates more loopholes to ignore impacts that put endangered and threatened species at risk.

18.   The Senate version also provides more money for wildlife habitat protection, wetlands reserves and other conservation programs.

19.   The work is part of a multiyear project on habitat protection for woodland raptors conceived by Robinson and William W. Bowerman of Eagle Environmental Inc.

20.   This area is overrun each spring with ornithologists in search of woodland birds, part of a multi-year project on habitat protection for woodland raptors.