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In this undated photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows fake Native American styled-jewelry seized by federal officials during a 2015 investigation in New Mexico. Federal prosecutors are preparing for trial in an ambitious investigation that traced falsified Native American art from the Philippines to galleries across the United States. Efforts to prevent the sale of counterfeit tribal art and jewelry will be the focus of testimony Friday, July 7, 2017, as two U.S. senators hold a field hearing in New Mexico about protecting legitimate American Indian artists and markets from fraudulent goods. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
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In this undated photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows fake Native American styled-jewelry seized by federal officials during a 2015 investigation in New Mexico. Federal prosecutors are preparing for trial in an ambitious investigation that traced falsified Native American art from the Philippines to galleries across the United States. Efforts to prevent the sale of counterfeit tribal art and jewelry will be the focus of testimony Friday, July 7, 2017, as two U.S. senators hold a field hearing in New Mexico about protecting legitimate American Indian artists and markets from fraudulent goods. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
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In this undated photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows fake Native American styled-jewelry seized by federal officials during a 2015 investigation in New Mexico. Federal prosecutors are preparing for trial in an ambitious investigation that traced falsified Native American art from the Philippines to galleries across the United States. Efforts to prevent the sale of counterfeit tribal art and jewelry will be the focus of testimony Friday, July 7, 2017, as two U.S. senators hold a field hearing in New Mexico about protecting legitimate American Indian artists and markets from fraudulent goods. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
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In this undated photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows fake Native American styled-jewelry seized by federal officials during a 2015 investigation in New Mexico. Federal prosecutors are preparing for trial in an ambitious investigation that traced falsified Native American art from the Philippines to galleries across the United States. Efforts to prevent the sale of counterfeit tribal art and jewelry will be the focus of testimony Friday, July 7, 2017, as two U.S. senators hold a field hearing in New Mexico about protecting legitimate American Indian artists and markets from fraudulent goods. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
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FILE - This undated aerial file photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The refuge takes up an area the size of West Virginia and Connecticut combined in the northeast corner of Alaska. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, file)
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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)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a Mexican gray wolf leaves cover at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, N.M. The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, lifted a preliminary injunction that had prevented the Fish and Wildlife Service from releasing more Mexican gray wolves. (Jim Clark/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)
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This Nov, 16, 2016 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Jaguar photographed by a motion-detection cameras in the Dos Cabezas Mountains in southern Arizona. Wildlife officials say they have evidence of a rare jaguar sighting in the United States. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a photo Thursday, March 2, from a trail camera that was taken in November and recently retrieved. (BLM/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
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This undated aerial photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. Petroleum drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was not a consideration under President Barack Obama but it's getting renewed attention under the new administration. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other members of the state’s congressional delegation are pushing legislation to allow drilling in the coastal plain of the refuge. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP) ** FILE **
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undated aerial photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. Petroleum drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was not a consideration under President Barack Obama but it's getting renewed attention under the new administration. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a Mexican gray wolf leaves cover at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, N.M. The Interior Department will ask a Denver-based court on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, to overturn a preliminary injunction that bars the department from releasing more Mexican gray wolves into the wild in New Mexico without that state's approval. (Jim Clark/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)
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FILE - This June 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows Debra Hill weighing a New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, which was trapped during survey efforts on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, N.M. Biologists who spent weeks in three New Mexico national forests searching for signs of the elusive, endangered mouse that looks somewhat like a tiny kangaroo have found what they call irrefutable evidence that it still lives in the state for which it is named. U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Beth Humphrey said Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, confirming the rodent's existence provides hope that the species can recover over time. (Stacey Stanford/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)
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FILE--This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a side view of a recently emerged adult female western glacier stonefly from below Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park, Mont. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, proposed adding the western glacier stonefly and the meltwater lednian stonefly to the government's list of threatened species.(Joe Giersch/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)
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In this July 6, 2016, file photo, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel struggle with carrying an adult alligator gar to a transportation tank at the Private John Allen National Fish Hatchery in Tupelo, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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This March 1, 2010 photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a bistate distinct population of the greater sage grouse, rear, as he struts for a female at a lek, or mating ground, near Bridgeport, Calif. A bird found only in California and Nevada no longer faces the threat of extinction and doesn't require federal protection, officials said just months before a more-sweeping decision is due on whether to declare other sage grouse threatened or endangered in 11 Western states. (Jeannie Stafford/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
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FILE - This July, 26, 2014 file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Greater Sage Grouse at the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. A legislative rider in Congress’ $1.1 trillion spending bill would delay protections for the wide-ranging Western bird that’s been on a collision course with the oil and gas industry. The Obama administration faced a September 2015 deadline to propose protections for greater sage grouse. But the spending package agreed to late Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 by Democrat and Republican leaders prevents the administration from spending any money next year on rules to protect the ground-dwelling bird. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tom Koerner, File)
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This June 2014 released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. Researchers are trying to get a better handle on the size of the Pacific walrus population ahead of an expected decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on whether the animals need special protections. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
