New Mexico

U.S. wildlife officials finalized a recovery plan for imperiled populations of Canada lynx and proposed new habitat protections in the southern Rocky Mountains for the forest-dwelling wildcats that are threatened by climate change. Areas of protected habitat also are being added in ID and MT. Protected areas in Wyoming would be sharply reduced. Wildlife officials said they were removing locations where they consider lynx unlikely to thrive in the future, while adding new areas that the latest science suggests are more suitable to their long-term survival.