NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species ... assurances that if the species is listed, they can continue to manage ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the dunes sagebrush lizard may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act and initiated a year-long status review.

Refusing to let dunes sagebrush lizards be another casualty of cattle grazing energy policy, the Center petitioned for the animals to be listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2002. The U.S. Fish ...

Advocates for conserving the lizard argued its primary threats were mining for sand used in the hydraulic fracturing.