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U.S. denies full protection for Pacific fisher, relative of the weasel - Earth News Report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday denied Endangered Species Act protection to a weasel-like woodland mammal called the Pacific fisher across most of its West Coast range, except for a dwindling population in California’s southern Sierras. The final decision from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sharply criticized by conservation groups, marked