The Biden administration will appeal to the Ninth Circuit to overturn a judge’s order restoring a proposal to protect a certain population of wolverines under the Endangered Species Act, according to a filing in a Montana federal court.
The notice of appeal filed Monday in the US District Court for the District of Montana seeks to continue a long-running dispute over whether to list the wolverine in the contiguous US as a threatened species.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service said that the population was distinct and proposed to list it as threatened in 2013. The agency withdrew the proposed ...
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