Posted on 03/29/2024 8:50:20 AM PDT by llevrok
On Thursday, the Biden administration restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back under former President Trump.
Among the changes announced, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.
That means officials won’t have to craft time-intensive plans to shield each individual species while protections are pending, as has been done recently with North American wolverines and alligator snapping turtles in the southeastern U.S. and spotted owls.
The blanket protection regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species law under Trump that were encouraged by industry.
Officials also will not consider economic impacts when deciding if animals and plants need protection.
In addition, the rules from the wildlife service and National Marine Fisheries Service make it easier to designate areas as critical for a species’ survival, even if it is no longer found in those locations.
Details on the rules were obtained by The Associated Press in advance of their public release.
Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams said the rule changes underscored the agency’s commitment to using the best available science to halt population declines.
Many energy companies, ranchers, developers, and representatives of other industries have long viewed the 1973 Endangered Species Act as an impediment.
Under Trump, they successfully lobbied to weaken the law’s regulations as part of a broad dismantling of environmental safeguards.
Trump officials had also rolled back endangered species rules and protections for the northern spotted owl, gray wolves, and other species.
In addition, the rules from the wildlife service and National Marine Fisheries Service make it easier to designate areas as critical for a species’ survival, even if it is no longer found in those locations.
Does this mean they are going to take down the windmills?
Officials also will not consider economic impacts when deciding if animals and plants need protection. IT is all about control.
Officials also will not consider economic impacts when deciding if animals and plants need protection. IT is all about control. Hopefully Trump is taking notes on what to roll back on the first week in office.
Oh they'll consider them, yes indeedy they will.
They'll prioritize "protecting" the plants and animals whose "protection" will do the most damage to the US economy and ability to protect itself.
Landgrab is exactly what it is. First they burn you out. Them they breach a damn and flood us out with poison sludge and if that’s not enough they’ll just regulate you to death.
“...designate areas as critical for a species’ survival, even if it is no longer found in those locations.”
They killed all the fish in the Klamath River system. Time to move on to the forests.
Headline doesn’t make sense. Rolls back… sounds like protections were removed.
My home town was killed by the spotted owl fiasco. The only people working there any more are welfare recipents and those doling out their checks. And the drug dealers.
Headline is opposite of article content.
“Biden Administration rolls back protections...”
“Biden administration restored rules to protect...”
Did the author even read what was written?
Bard Owls are what is chasing away Spotted Owls.
Clinton shut down the forests with his ‘roadless’ plan. The feds sent dollars to schools for a few years as the revenue from logging dried up. They claimed tourism would make up for that loss. BS. There’s no work on the river so kids leave as soon as they can. Social security is probably the primary economy.
Cal. Fish & Wildlife shut down gold dredging because it floated some sediment claiming it was killing fish! The muck from dam removal is killing everything from deer to eagles.
The title of this post is exactly wrong. :)
Snort. They’re probably saving the $$$ so they can spend it on their protected species of choice: the American RINO… 🙄
White conservative males?
The title and first sentence sound opposite.
Today's writers are just nonsensical.
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