Feds To Study Butterfly Once Found Across Southwest

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials plan to study the status of a butterfly once found across the Southwest to see if it warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday announced it will conduct a 12-month review of the Great Basin silverspot butterfly.
Environmentalists had petitioned the agency to consider the butterfly’s status, saying it has been losing habitat due to development, grazing, mining and changing hydrological