31.   The bill would require that the protection of threatened species like the owl be balanced against needs of people who could be hurt by that protection.

32.   The case stemmed from a federal government program to preserve habitat of the owl and other threatened species in the Northwest.

33.   The dams can also harm fish considered threatened species by the National Marine Fisheries Service by releasing water warmer than is good for them.

34.   The loss of the cutthroat could in turn harm the population of the grizzly bear, a threatened species that feeds on the fish.

35.   The lawsuits argued this would further threaten the local population of Canada lynx, which the federal government last year proposed to list as a threatened species.

36.   The number of threatened species continues to grow, and the World Conservation Union has posted its latest list of them.

37.   The skin of a clouded leopard, a threatened species, is for sale at a wildlife shop in Phnom Penh.

38.   The upstart challenger was the Florida scrub jay, a threatened species and poster bird for environmentalists.

39.   There are many other threatened coastal species, including some, such as the manatee from Florida, that are too large to be exhibited.