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Reintroducing the Jackalope, bad idea ?

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We own a small nursery and have enough troubles with cottontail rabbits. I am concerned these guys will be protected and I will have have to move ??


Petition seeks return of Yellowstone jackalope to public lands around parks
By: RUFFIN PREVOST | January 24, 2016
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Federal wildlife managers are reviewing a petition seeking the reintroduction of jackalopes to public lands around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. (Yellowstone Gate file photo)
By Ruffin Prevost

BOZEMAN, MONT. — Federal wildlife managers say they are in the early phases of reviewing a petition that seeks to reintroduce the gray prairie jackalope to the greater Yellowstone area, but they have not set a deadline for acting on the filing.

Attorneys for the Biological Equality Foundation on Friday submitted the petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, according to agency spokesman Craig Jimmeson, who declined to comment in detail on the petition.

Citing more than a dozen state and federal wildlife and habitat studies dating back to 1992, the Colorado-based Biological Equality Foundation stated in its petition that the “Yellowstone jackalope has been reduced to pockets of isolated population groups across a tiny fraction of its historic range.”
 
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