Agency looks to drop seabird coastal habitat designation

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PORTLAND – The federal government has proposed to help settle a lawsuit by dropping nearly 4 million acres of designated “critical habitat” for the marbled murrelet, a threatened seabird that nests in coastal forests in Oregon, Washington and California. The federal lawsuit pending in Washington, D.C., was brought by the …

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