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(Missoula Current) Several conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the Trump administration reversed an agency rule that has helped protect threatened species for decades. Last week, six conservation organizations sued Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the Fish and Wildlife Service in Butte federal district court for repealing a rule that had protected members of a threatened species from harm or death. The repeal is the second attempt of a Trump administration to eliminate the rule and lessen protection for threatened species. “Wildlife needs help as soon as we recognize it’s in trouble. This rollback opens the door to killing newly listed threatened animals that would otherwise be protected. A species lost to extinction can never be brought back,” said Ben Greuel, Sierra Club’s national wildlife campaign manager, in a statement. The organizations include the Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, National Parks Conservation Association, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, Save the Manatee Club and Humane World for Animals, formerly the Humane Society of the United States. The “Blanket 4(d) Rule” has existed since 1975, two years after Congress passed the Endangered Species Act, to give threatened species some of the protections that the law requires for endangered species...

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(Missoula Current) Several conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the Trump administration reversed an agency rule that has helped protect threatened species for decades. Last week, six conservation organizations sued Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the Fish and Wildlife Service in Butte federal district court for repealing a rule that had protected members of a threatened species from harm or death. The repeal is the second attempt of a Trump administration to eliminate the rule and lessen protection for threatened species. “Wildlife needs help as soon as we recognize it’s in trouble. This rollback opens the door to killing newly listed threatened animals that would otherwise be protected. A species lost to extinction can never be brought back,” said Ben Greuel, Sierra Club’s national wildlife campaign manager, in a statement. The organizations include the Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, National Parks Conservation Association, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, Save the Manatee Club and Humane World for Animals, formerly the Humane Society of the United States. The “Blanket 4(d) Rule” has existed since 1975, two years after Congress passed the Endangered Species Act, to give threatened species some of the protections that the law requires for endangered species...

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