U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Reopens Process to List Mountain Plover as Threatened; Special Rule Proposed to Help Determine Effects of Farming Practices on this Declining Prairie Bird

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today reopened the public comment period on its 1999 proposal to list the mountain plover, a grassland bird found in the mountain West, as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. With the reopening of the comment period, which was announced in today