Does voluntary conservation work?
Snow from the Beaverhead Mountains feeds the Big Hole River, which snakes through forested mountains, grasslands and sagebrush steppe in southwestern Montana. B
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Snow from the Beaverhead Mountains feeds the Big Hole River, which snakes through forested mountains, grasslands and sagebrush steppe in southwestern Montana. B
Can pre-listing conservation save the last native population of Arctic grayling in the Lower 48?
Can pre-listing conservation save the last native population of Arctic grayling in the Lower 48?
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.
About 30 years ago, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned for the listing of the arctic grayling in Montana. Studies demonstrate that Montana grayling are genetically distinct from populations in Canada and Alaska.