On April 17, 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) reached a negative 90-day finding on a petition to remove the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) from the List of Threatened and Endangered Species. The Service’s finding was in response to a petition to delist the mouse filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation in 2017. The Service concluded that the petition presented no new information indicating that delisting the mouse is warranted.
The Service rejected the petition’s taxonomic argument that the mouse is not a distinct subspecies that ...
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