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Fight over cactus files

DENVER — A conservation group is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court over accusations that it wrongly withheld agency records about a proposed rule to delist the Colorado hookless cactus as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

/ May 23, 2025
This photo of kingcup cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus Engelm) in New Mexico's Ladrones Mountains is part of the collection at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History. (Image via Courthouse News courtesy of the Smithsonion Institute)

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