Conservationists Sue to Protect Butterfly in Nevada

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First it was Harry Reid and his bright idea to save a small fish by making one of Southern Nevada's best skinny-dip hot springs off limits (he was successful) and now this.



By SCOTT SONNER
The Associated Press
Friday, January 6, 2006; 9:39 AM

RENO, Nev. -- Conservationists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday seeking protection for a rare butterfly they say is threatened by off-road vehicles at one of the largest sand dunes in the West.

Environmentalists want the agency to declare the Sand Mountain blue butterfly an endangered species because, they say, its habitat is being destroyed at the only place it is known to live -- the Sand Mountain Recreation Area in western Nevada. [full story]