The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public input about the possibility of reintroducing southern sea otters, a threatened species, to estuaries along the Northern California and Oregon coast. One of three otter subspecies, southern sea otters once thrived along the coast, but hunters seeking their fur nearly wiped them out in the 1800s. Last year, at the request of Congress, the Fish and Wildlife Service studied the possibility of reintroducing the species…