Good news on the monarch front. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a proposal to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species "with species-specific protections and flexibilities to encourage conservation" under Section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). "We are also proposing to designate critical habitat at theoverwintering grounds in California," said spokesperson Cal Robinson, public affairs specialist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Sacramento Fish...
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