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Tuesday, February 07, 2017
PLF takes first move in effort to delist the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse
Late last week, PLF gave notice
to the pertinent Colorado and Wyoming wildlife agencies of our intent,
on behalf of a broad coalition of property rights and sound science
advocates, to petition the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to
delist the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse from the Endangered Species Act. The mouse’s tenure on the list of protected wildlife has been contentious, figuring prominently in the larger science and policy debate
about taxonomy and wildlife regulation. Our petition will contend that
the Preble’s mouse—which the Service listed as a threatened subspecies
in 1998—is in fact no different from two other plentiful, non-endangered
jumping mouse populations that dwell north of the Canadian border. The petition’s argument for delisting focuses on the faulty
subspecies designation on which the mouse’s listing is based. It relies
on a 2013 study of the Preble’s mouse, produced by biologists at the University of New Mexico and published in the journal Molecular Ecology.
The study constitutes the most comprehensive analysis of North American
jumping mouse populations in history. Its conclusion—that the Preble’s
mouse is actually a relatively common animal...more
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