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FILE - This June 20, 2014 file photo taken by an automatic trail camera provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows an adult female grizzly bear in the Cabinet Mountains in northwest Montana near Canada. A federal judge ruled Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 that the small population of grizzly bears in Montana and Idaho near the Canadian border can be considered endangered even if they are not on the brink of extinction. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen’s order reversed the 2014 re-classification by U.S. wildlife officials for 40 to 50 bears of the Cabinet-Yaak bear population under the federal Endangered Species Act. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

Judge: Bears near US-Canada border merit endangered status

By MATT VOLZ - Associated Press

In this May 25, 2017 photo, baby eels swim in a bucket after being caught near Brewer, Maine. Changes in the worldwide sushi industry have turned live baby American eels into a commodity that can fetch more than $2,000 a pound at the dock. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Poached eels: US strikes at illegal harvests as value grows

By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 16, 2004, file photo, a gray wolf is seen at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. A federal appeals court Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, retained federal protection for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region, ruling that the government acted prematurely when it dropped them from the endangered species list. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)

Court keeps Great Lakes wolves on endangered species list

By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press

Feds release long-awaited recovery plan for Mexican wolves

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

This photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team, shows a San Mateo Mexican wolf litter, including two pups cross-fostered from the Illinois Brookfield Zoo, in their wild den in New Mexico on May 3, 2017. Federal wildlife officials say they have successfully placed two captive-born Mexican gray wolf pups into the wild den with a foster family, clearing the way for a cross-fostering project aimed at boosting genetic diversity among wolves in the wild in New Mexico and Arizona. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team via AP)

Feds release endangered wolf pups in New Mexico

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Trump revokes Alaska refuge rule; change may be symbolic

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

Calendar featured photo of now-dead whooping crane

By CAROL KUGLER - Associated Press

Indiana whooping crane killing latest loss for rare birds

By RICK CALLAHAN - Associated Press

Feds: 14 endangered Mexican wolves confirmed dead in 2016

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press