Wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections
FILE- In this April 7, 1999, file photo, a male lesser prairie chicken climbs a sage limb to rise above the others at a breeding area near Follett, Texas. Wildlife advocates say efforts to restore the birds could be set back by a proposal on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, to exempt areas from habitat protections meant to save imperiled species. (David Crenshaw/Tulsa World via AP, File)
BILLINGS (AP) — A Trump administration proposal released Friday would allow the government to deny habitat protections for endangered animals and plants in areas that would see greater economic benefits from being developed — a change critics said could open lands to more energy development and other activities.
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