<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<header class="headline_block span24" style="background-attachment:
scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color:
transparent; background-image: none; background-origin:
padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width:
960px; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;
text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
white-space: normal; width: 960px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<h2 class="slug" style="background-attachment: scroll;
background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(109, 146, 48); font-size:
138.46%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left:
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert;
outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;
position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align:
baseline;">ENDANGERED SPECIES</h2>
<h1 class="headline " style="background-attachment: scroll;
background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 138.46%;
font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert;
outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline;">Unseen for 13 years, this bee is
about to get protection</h1>
<section class="byline" style="background-attachment: scroll;
background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); display: block;
font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em;
outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;
padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<p class="authors" style="background-attachment: scroll;
background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 92.3%; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;
outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="https://www.eenews.net/staff/Michael_Doyle"
style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right:
0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left:
0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Doyle</a>, E&E
News reporter</p>
<time style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
92.3%; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom:
0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;
outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"
datetime="2019-10-14 13:12:15 -0400">Published: Monday,
October 14, 2019</time> </section>
</header>
<span style="display: inline !important; float: none;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 100%; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>
<section class="span16" style="background-attachment: scroll;
background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); display: block; float: left; font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px; orphans: 2; outline-color:
invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom:
0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;
text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; width: 640px;
word-spacing: 0px;">
<section class="content" style="background-attachment: scroll;
background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; counter-reset: list-header-num; display:
block; font-size: 107.69%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 600px;
outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;
padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<aside class="left span16 image_asset_layout"
id="image_asset_layout_62991" style="background-attachment:
scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color:
transparent; background-image: none; background-origin:
padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y:
0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block;
float: left; font-size: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px;
max-width: 620px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; width: 620px;"><img alt="a Franklin’s bumblebee
Photo credit: James P. Strange/USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect
Research Unit/Wikimedia "
src="https://www.eenews.net/image_assets/2019/10/image_asset_64379.jpg"
style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px;
border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-style:
solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;
box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;
outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width:
100%;">
<p class="caption" style="background-attachment: scroll;
background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style:
none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size:
85.71%; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right:
2px; margin-top: 3px; outline-color: invert; outline-style:
none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left:
0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">The Fish and Wildlife Service has a proposal to
protect the Franklin’s bumblebee. <span class="credit"
style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style:
none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);
font-size: 91.66%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert;
outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom:
0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James P. Strange/USDA-ARS
Pollinating Insect Research Unit/Wikimedia </span></p>
</aside>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">A Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to protect the
Franklin's bumblebee has generated remarkably little buzz, in
a sign that the rarely seen pollinator will easily alight on
the Endangered Species Act list.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">With one day left in the public review period, only
28 comments have been recorded so far. All appear to support
listing the species, which hasn't been detected in about 13
years, as endangered.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"I love bees," one anonymous commenter stated, and
left it at that.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">But while an ESA listing now seems straightforward,
some are worried about the Fish and Wildlife Service's
accompanying decision not to designate critical habitat for
the bee last found in parts of Oregon and California.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"We believe the already reduced number of the
species and limited geographic area lead to the conclusion
that more studies need to be completed before making this
determination," wrote Rachael Jaffe, a law student at the
University of Denver Sturm College of Law.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Jaffe, who is with the school's Environmental Law
Clinic and has a master's degree in ecology, added that "by
failing to list a habitat for the Franklin's bumble bee, this
proposed rule undermines the goal of listing the species in
the first place."</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">The Franklin's bumblebee has lived in Douglas,
Jackson and Josephine counties in Oregon, and Siskiyou and
Trinity counties in California. Whether it still does is an
open question.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the
species is "thought to have the most limited distribution of
all known North American bumble bee species ... and one of the
most limited geographic distributions of any bumble bee in the
world."</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">In 2010, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate
Conservation and Robbin Thorp, a professor emeritus from the
University of California, Davis, petitioned FWS to list the
species. Though it took nearly a decade, the Fish and Wildlife
Service eventually proposed to list it last August.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Thorp died in June at the age of 85. He was the
last human known to have seen a Franklin's bumblebee.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Twenty bees were located in 1999, nine individuals
were observed in 2000 and only three were seen in 2003.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"No Franklin's bumble bees have been found since
the last sighting of a single individual in Oregon in 2006,"
the agency noted, adding that "Franklin's bumble bee
populations could potentially persist undetected."</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">FWS cited the example of the Fender's blue
butterfly in Oregon, which was believed extinct after the last
recorded observation in 1937, until it was rediscovered in
1989.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Pesticide use was "likely a factor in the decline
of the Franklin's bumble bee," the Fish and Wildlife Service
reported, and pathogens and other stressors have also
contributed (<a
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060121799/"
style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size:
100%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left:
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom:
0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top:
0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><em
style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent;
background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box;
background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%;
background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style:
none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 100%; margin-bottom:
0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;
outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">E&E News PM</em></a>, Feb. 21).</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Habitat, though, may be plentiful.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"Because habitat for the [species] is not limiting,
and because the bee is considered to be flexible with regards
to its habitat, the availability of habitat does not limit the
conservation of the Franklin's bumble bee now, nor will it in
the foreseeable future," FWS said.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">As a result, the Fish and Wildlife Service
determined it was "not prudent" to undertake the customary
step of designating critical habitat.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Critical habitat includes areas with physical or
biological features "essential to the conservation of the
species." Under the law, FWS is required "to the maximum
extent prudent and determinable" to designate critical habitat
for a species upon its listing.</p>
</section>
<section class="promotion generated" style="background-attachment:
scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color:
transparent; background-image: none; background-origin:
padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y:
0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: rgb(146, 171, 127); border-bottom-style:
none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: rgb(146, 171, 127); border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(146, 171, 127);
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: rgb(146, 171, 127); border-top-style: solid;
border-top-width: 2px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); display: block;
font-size: 100%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert;
outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;
vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-attachment:
scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color:
transparent; background-image: none; background-origin:
padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y:
0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;
border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0;
border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%;
border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1;
border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor;
border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px;
border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none;
border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 100%; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;
outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter: <a
href="https://twitter.com/MichaelDoyle10"
style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; color: rgb(109, 146, 48); font-size:
100%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left:
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom:
0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top:
0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@MichaelDoyle10</a></span></section>
</section>
<br>
</body>
</html>