WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following agency statement on Sept. 19, 2023: We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are announcing a not-warranted 12-month finding on a petition to list the plains spotted skunk under the Endangered Species Act. Using the best available science, we conducted a species status assessment to inform our listing determination and found that the species is not at risk of extinction now or in th  more