Environmental
Oct. 22, 2016
Environmental groups sue to protect weasel
The plaintiffs claim the US Fish and Wildlife service inexplicably reversed course on protections.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A collection of environmental groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency's decision to exclude the Pacific fisher, a mink-like carnivore, from federal endangered species protection.
The Pacific fisher, a weasel closely related to minks, martens and wolverines, is being severely threatened by logging, use of pesticides by illegal marijuana growe...
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