protections

A proposal to strip gray wolves of federal protections could curtail their rapid expansion across vast swaths of the U.S., yet the predators already are proving to be resilient in states where hunting and trapping occur.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that the northern leatherside chub does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act.  It made its finding after a review prompted by a petition from Forest Guardians. The northern leatherside chub is a small desert fish in the minnow family that occurs in northern Utah and Nevada, southern and eastern Idaho, and western Wyoming... R