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Then, they would freeze some of the sperm of the males there and take that — plus 10 live, adult starfish and larvae — back with them to the Lower 48.

Gray wolves in the lower 48 states, and particularly California, tend to weigh about 75-80 pounds.

After all, Minnesota is the northernmost of the Lower 48 states.

The federal government owns less than 5% of the land east of the Mississippi River, but nearly half of the acreage in 11 Western states in the Lower 48, controlled mostly by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.

That would encourage the reproduction of local bull trout, which are a threatened species in the Lower 48 states.