SPECIES ON AND OFF STATE LIST: The Iowa Natural
Resources Commission
  has removed the bobcat and river otter from the
state's list of
  endangered and threatened species and added the
spotted skunk,
southern
  bog lemming, slender glass lizard, Blanding's
turtle, wood turtle and
  speckled kingsnake says the Des Moines Register
10/12. While an
  "elaborate" state reintroduction program was
credited with boosting
  otter populations, a "drop in trapping caused by low
pelt prices
  probably helped" the bobcats.


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