The former Moapa Band of Paiutes tribal chairman, who helped close down a coal plant that was killing people on his reservation, died Sunday at age 44.
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Conservation groups filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal district court for failing to protect the California spotted owl and Pacific fisher (a relative of the mink and otter) under the Endangered Species Act.