wolverine

Another conservation group has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s delay in determining critical habitat for wolverines, a federally listed threatened species.

Biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have begun a new project to better understand wolverine populations and demographics within Idaho forests.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks announced that it had notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of its intent to sue over the agency’s Nov. 29 decision to grant Endangered Species protection to the wolverine.

After more than two decades of consideration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to list the wolverine under the Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has repeatedly balked at protecting the wolverine, but based on the agency’s most recent assessment, the species’ future is bleaker than previously thought.