The state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced last week it is proposing to classify a local San Juan Islands butterfly ...

A kaleidoscope of orange-and-yellow monarch butterflies soon will return ... as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a March 18 ...

Only about 1,000 of the butterflies were found in recent annual surveys, according to the nonprofit conservation organization. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declined to list the species in 2012.