Utah Lake’s endangered June suckers are bouncing back

After three decades of costly recovery efforts, Utah Lake’s June suckers have rebounded from near extinction to a point at which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed downgrading the fish’s protection status from endangered to threatened.An emergency captive-rearing program saved the large-bodied fish, but much work needs to be down to put the June sucker on a self-sustaining course, according to Mike Mills, a biologist who helps lead recovery efforts.In a few months, Mills