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• Position: STATELINE - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's proposed habitat for endangered woodland caribou in Idaho and Washington - Brief article

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to designate an area half the size of Rhode Island in Idaho and Washington as critical habitat for endangered woodland caribou. Opponents decried the proposal as nothing more than a federal land grab that would harm their local economies by restricting logging, snowmobiling and use of the forest. A spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told the Associated Press that the...