The U.S. Fish & Wildlife service has released a draft proposal for conservation efforts on a population of arctic grayling at a wildlife refuge near Yellowstone.
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When it refused to protect the arctic grayling in Montana, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ignored the best available science and made too many assumptions about voluntary conservation efforts, environmentalists say.
Conservationists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking protections for Montana’s Arctic grayling population under the Endangered Species Act. The parties the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project and Butte resident Pat Munday are represented by Earthjustice.