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Associated Press Dec 21, 2018 Updated Dec 21, 2018
A
conservation group is suing the Trump administration over the protection of
critical habitat for garter snakes in Arizona and New Mexico.
The Center
for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Tucson,
accusing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of endangering the Northern Mexican
garter snake and the narrow-headed garter snake.
In the
filing, the organization says the populations of both snakes are at lower
densities in both states.
Both became
listed as threatened in 2014 under the Endangered Species Act.
The Trump
administration needs to safeguard the rivers the snakes rely on, an attorney
for the Center for Biological Diversity says.
A spokesman
for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not immediately a message and email
seeking comment.
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