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U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where the rare animals would be protected, according to a legal agreement made public Tuesday.

Some scientists warn climate change could undo progress in lynx recovery, by melting away their snowy habitat and decreasing the availability of snowshoe hares

U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the rare, snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where the rare animals would be protected, according to a legal agreement made public Tuesday.

Late yesterday, the District Court of Montana approved a legal agreement with wildlife conservation groups secured with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service compelling the agency to revise its Canada lynx critical habitat rule to evaluate territory in the wild cat's southern Rocky Mountains range essential to its recovery.

U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where the rare animals would be protected, according to a legal agreement made public Tuesday.

Wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the rare, snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Western states where they would be protected.

U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where the rare animals would be protected, according to a legal agreement made public Tuesday.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Can...

For Immediate Release, July 9, 2021 Contact: Katie Arberg, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-0259, karberg@defenders.org Joe Liebezeit, Portland Audubon, (503) 329-6026, jliebezeit@audubonportland.org John Mellgren, Western Environmental Law Center, (541) 359-0990, mellgren@westernlaw.org Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (503) 327-4923, bethany@cascwild.org Oregon Approves Petition to Increase Marbled Murrelet Endangered Species Protection Coastal Seabird at Risk of E...