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Wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections

by Associated Press
| September 4, 2020 11:03 AM

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials on Friday proposed making it easier to carve out exemptions from habitat protections meant to save imperiled species, by placing greater weight on the potential economic benefits of development when making decisions.

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