FWS Removes Utah Plant From Endangered Species List

The Fish and Wildlife Service is removing the Deseret milkvetch (Astragalus desereticus), a plant found in Utah, from the Endangered and Threatened Plants List, it said in a final rule. "Based on the best available scientific and commercial data, threats to Deseret milkvetch identified at the time of listing are not as significant as originally anticipated and are being adequately managed, the species’ population is much greater than was known at the time of listing, and threats to this species have been sufficiently minimized such that it no longer meets the definition of an endangered species or threatened species," FWS said. The delisting takes effect Nov. 19.