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Endangered-species decision expected on beloved butterfly

by Ellen KnickmeyerJohn Flesher
| December 13, 2020 10:03 PM

Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species.

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