The settlement capped a decade - long effort by the Center's scientists, attorneys and activists to safeguard 1,000 of America's most imperiled, least protected species including the walrus, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, fisher, New England cottontail rabbit, three species of sage grouse, scarlet Hawaiian
honeycreeper, California golden trout, Miami
blue butterfly, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, 403 southeastern river - dependent species, 42 Great Basin springsnails and 32 Pacific Northwest mollusks.