Every so often a logical and ethical decision is reached in favor of rewilding our great USA.............."Yesterday, a Federal Judge decreed that the U.S. government was wrong to exclude portions of five western states when it designated critical habitat for the imperiled Canada lynx"................ "U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Montana issued an order Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider adding habitat for the wild cats in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho"..............."The judge cited the presence of a reproducing lynx population in the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado"............. "Agency officials had earlier concluded that area was “not essential” for the recovery of the species, pointing in part to low population densities of snowshoe hares that lynx eat"............ “The (Fish and Wildlife) Service’s own representations suggest that parts of Colorado constitute suitable critical habitat".............. "Snowshoe hares are certainly present in the southern Rockies at densities “at or near” the level needed to support lynx".............

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Judge says US should reconsider habitat for Canada lynx

Originally published September 7, 2016 at 2:01 pm 

This Feb. 3, 1999 file photo shows a female Canadian lynx
 heading for the woods after being released near South Fork,
 Colo.. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File)