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Endangered bighorn sheep may have home
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FRESNO, Calif. - More than 400,000 acres of wildlands in the
Eastern Sierra Nevada should be made protected habitat for an
endangered mountain sheep rebounding from the threat of extinction,
the federal government said.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's proposed critical habitat
designation is a response to a 2005 lawsuit. Environmentalists claim
in the suit the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep couldn't recover because
their habitat wasn't protected as required under the Endangered
Spec...
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