The Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers approved a new landfill in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the condition that the city take steps to collect the American Burying Beetle. Landfill officials must set baited traps throughout the 400-acre construction site and then move the captured beetles to safer ground. Although about 180 traps were set, only seven beetles were caught in three months, at a cost to local taxpayers of $78,176.

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