For Star subscribers: U.S. officials adopt stricter standards for determining if livestock are being killed by Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.
Gopher tortoises burrowers whose extensive homes shelter many other animals are generally doing well and need federal protection only in the small area where they were declared threatened 35 years ago, the government said Tuesday.
Gopher tortoises burrowers whose extensive homes shelter many other animals are generally doing well and need federal protection only in the small area where they were declared threatened 35 years ago, the government said Tuesday.
The federal government says the gopher tortoise isn t threatened in most of its range. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision Tuesday is likely to disappoint environmental groups that sued