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A Tiny, ‘Endangered’ Fish Delayed a Dam’s Construction in the 1970s. Now, Scientists Say the Snail Darter Isn’t So Rare After AllA lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...
The two-inch snail darter became a symbol for regulatory overreach in the 1970s. New research suggests the fish was not an endangered species — or even a species.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejects state petitions for local management, creates single recovery area for grizzlies in ...
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The snail darter is not a thing. It was just a common perch, say scientists. Fraud or bad science? From David Mastio: ...
Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is ...
Bald eagles were nearly eliminated from much of their native range by the 1960s, but have rebounded. Now, they've been ...
On December 12, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under ...
A new study by Yale researchers shows that the tiny fish, discovered in a lower stretch of the Little Tennessee River in 1973, is not a distinct species at all, meaning it was never endangered. The ...
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