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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agrees to launch scientific study to determine whether bumblebees are headed for extinction

By Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29642475/feds-agree-consider-wests-bumble-bees-an-endangered

Federal wildlife biologists said Tuesday they will consider protecting the native western bumblebee as an endangered species.

Once widespread, bumblebees have declined across western North America and, for at least one type, it may be too late.

A Defenders of Wildlife petition drove the decision by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials to launch a scientific review to determine whether bumblebees need federal protection to survive....

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