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An appeals court says a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to designate 8.6 million acres in Colorado and three other Western states as critical habitat for an endangered owl will stand.
Friday’s decision by a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a 2008 ruling by a federal judge in Phoenix. The ruling found that critical habitat in Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico for the Mexican spotted owl was designated correctly. The Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association had opposed the designation. The Associated Press
