[SunkenCiv]

...with researchers scouring the Palouse region in hopes of finding more of the giant earthworms. Conservationists also want the Obama administration to protect the worm as an endangered species

[piytar]

Yup, and they are blaming “agriculture” for the worm's rarity. So, if they get it declared endangered and establish its range as, say, all of Idaho, agriculture in Idaho will be banned. /only slight exaggeration