SEATTLE --- Climate change on Mt. Rainier --- manifesting in warming temperatures, receding glaciers and wet snow --- threatens the white-tailed ptarmigan, a winter-adapted grouse the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it intends to protect under the Endangered Species Act.
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