EPHRATA -- The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered species from extinction. The tiny ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 23—GRANT COUNTY — Cutting through backroads of the Beezley Hills Preserve in February, about five miles north of Quincy, ...

A dwindling population of rabbits, isolated in Washington since the ice age, may need help from Idaho relatives to survive. With no nearby relatives for recolonization, scientists are considering ...

In Washington State, the race is on to save a diminutive bunny as wildfires threaten its already shrinking habitat The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit relies on sagebrush for food and shelter, but the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comments on changes to its plan for pygmy rabbit recovery in the Columbia Basin. The changing plan calls for a move away from a captive breeding ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday released its final recovery plan for the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. The plan recommended continuing many recovery efforts ...

Workers have given up on recreating a population of 100% Columbia basin rabbits, because severe inbreeding has left them with compromised immune systems and other health problems. So they've begun ...

A new gift of land to The Nature Conservancy, 282 acres near Quincy, will help secure a future for the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. The land will become part of The Nature Conservancy’s ...