Feds reviewing list of endangered species

DOVER, Del. — Federal officials are reviewing whether the Delmarva fox squirrel should remain on the list of endangered species.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has begun a five-year review of the squirrel and four other species: the northeastern bulrush, Furbish lousewort, Chittenango ovate amber snail and Virginia round-leaf birch. The agency is asking for comments by Oct. 4.

The fox squirrel, now found mostly on Maryland's Eastern Shore, has been listed as endangered since 1967.

An environmental group announced in June that it planned to sue the U.S. State Department over a proposed training center in Queen Anne's County, saying the project would harm the squirrel.

Federal officials later abandoned the project, citing community and environmentalist objections.