Louisiana challenges California ban on alligator products
(WorldNews Environment)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the Trump administration`s last days, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a change to rules protecting alligators – a change that opponents consider an end run around the chance that Louisiana might lose a federal court challenge to California`s ban on alligator products. The government is taking comments until March 22 on the proposal to remove 12 words that let states regulate sales or transfers of “any American alligator specimen” within their boundaries. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries supports the change and credits the great armored lizard`s comeback largely to private conservation prompted by commerce. The proposed rule goes...