Fluvial (river) grayling have been reduced to just one river in the lower 48 states. USFWS doesn’t want to list them. They say graying in the few lakes that have them are sufficient. Western Watersheds Project and other groups are suing over this refusal to list.
Missoulian says the decision not to list river grayling smells "fishy"
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this is good news.
do you know Ralph whether it was the populations in Alaska that were cited as populations which were sufficient to keep the fish off the list ?
Yet another battle over the “significant portion of its range” phrase.