Image via Wikipedia ALASKA VS. FEDS: Suit seeks to overturn endangered listing but program cited is expired. By RICHARD MAUER Anchorage Daily News Published: October 30th, 2011 10:21 PM Last Modified: October 30th, 2011 10:22 PM Back in February, the Parnell administration told a judge that Cook Inlet beluga whales didn't need the protection of the federal Endangered Species Act because the state was perfectly capable of protecting them itself, in part because of the Alaska Coastal Management Program. But in a notice belatedly filed in the case Friday, the Alaska attorney general's office acknowledged the state had lost that conservation and enforcement tool four months ago. The program expired July 1 when the Alaska Legislature failed to renew it this year, first in its regular session and then in two special sessions. The February assertion and Friday's notice were made in a lawsuit brought by the state in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking to ov
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