— U.S. wildlife officials finalized a recovery plan for imperiled populations of Canada lynx on Wednesday and proposed new habitat protections in the southern Rocky Mountains for the forest-dwelling wildcats that are threatened by climate change. “They weren’t really committing to conserve lynx in Colorado anymore, and now they are.” Areas of protected habitat also are being added in Idaho …
— U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where the rare animals would be protected, according to a legal agreement made public Tuesday. The groups sued to enforce a prior court ruling from Christensen that said federal officials wrongly excluded …