“Call the Gila chub whatever you like, but only if you make sure these fish have clean, cool water to swim in,” Kemppinen said. “That means keeping the Gila chub on the endangered list in ...

A new study called for collapsing the Gila chub and headwater chub into the single species known as the roundtail chub. The Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday proposed removing Endangered Species ...

The reason there are still Gila chub in Sabino Creek today, for example, is because more than 950 of the fish were captured and moved out of the canyon in 2003, before their habitat was severely ...

Center for Biological Diversity: PHOENIX— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed stripping Endangered Species Act protections from the Gila chub, an imperiled Arizona fish. Gila chubs are ...

We must not sacrifice them.” The proposed delisting would also remove protections for 160 stream-miles of critical habitat that currently protect Gila chub waterways. It would also preclude federal ...

“The project is occurring during the dry spring months to avoid effects to the Sabino Creek’s water quality and fish populations, including the endangered Gila Chub,” the release said.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed dropping endangered species protection for the Gila chub, on the grounds that it’s really not a separate species after all.

The USFWS wants to lump all three chubs into a single roundtail chub species. In that case, the Gila chub will lose the “endangered” status it gained in 2017.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed dropping endangered species protection for the Gila chub, on the grounds that it’s really not a separate species after all. The years-long review ...

by the Fish and Wildlife Service on 06/17/2025. We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to remove the Gila chub (Gila intermedia) from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened ...

The river’s diminishment threatens the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher and Virgin River chub, which exist nowhere else on Earth. U.S. Geological Survey data indicates that natural springs ...

Dead fish are being reported at two Arizona lakes. Wildlife officials say poor water quality caused by below-average precipitation is to blame.