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Bringing Down the Grouse
Bush admin ignored best science when considering sage grouse species protections |
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05 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:23 AM on 05 Dec 2007 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must reconsider its decision not to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act, a federal judge ruled this week. The judge said that the FWS ignored the best available science on the species when deciding whether to list it in 2005; he also expressed doubts about the efficacy of the agency's entire decisi ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, litigation, news, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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