<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Friday was a good day for the rusty patched bumble bee. After decades of declining populations and a nearly 90% contraction in range, it was given a glimmer of hope for a future: It is one step closer to protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt">Read more about this in a blog post from Xerces Executive Director Scott Hoffman Black, at <a href="http://www.xerces.org/blog/">http://www.xerces.org/blog/</a></span></p><br><br>-- <br>Matthew Shepherd<br>Communications Director<br>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation<p>---------------<br>Sent from my iPhone<br></p>