The Long And Short Of Petitioning To List A Species Under The ESA [Guest Post]

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In October, two ENGOs provided a notice to the Comptrollers office of their intent to petition the US Fish and Wildlife Service to list the dunes sagebrush lizard (DSL) as an endangered species. There’s been a lot of speculation that a petition to list the species is going to happen, but there is not much documentation on what happens next. So we asked Certified Wildlife Biologist Jenny Blair to educate us where this process is headed.

 

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