Groups file suit over bighorn habitat

Environmental groups sued the federal government Wednesday, alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's more than 55 percent reduction in protected habitat for the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep was unsupported by the agency's own science and was done to accommodate urban sprawl. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for Southern California, seeks to restore a protected critical habitat status of nearly 845,000 acres for the sheep. The Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking to reduce protected sheep habitat to about 377,000 acres...read more