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BOISE - Federal officials say a tiny snail that lives along a 65-mile stretch of the Snake River in southern Idaho still deserves protection as a threatened species.
The Idaho Statesman reports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its ruling Wednesday on the Bliss Rapids snail.
The decision to maintain the snail's threatened status is a setback of sorts for the state and Idaho Power Co. The utility and the Governor's Office of Species Conservation filed a petition in 2006 seeking to have the snail delisted.
The snail is the size of a small fingernail and lives in the cold springs and spring-influenced river habitat along the Snake River in near Hagerman. It was declared a threatened species in 1992 due to threats from hydroelectric dams, water quality declines and irrigation.
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