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Feds reconsider critical habitat after political interference   add a comment about this item

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December 2010

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A federal judge has ruled that the US Fish and Wildlife Service can review the designation of critical habitat for two threatened fish species in New Mexico and Arizona after a probe revealed that political interference probably influenced the original designation. Federal biologists now have another year to review the habitat designations for the spikedace and loach minnow which have been eliminated from 80% of their ranges in the two states.

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FISH; CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREAS

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USA

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Fish [2913]