Co-opting species law : Environmentalists bend Endangered Species Act to their no-growth agenda

The Orange County Register ^ | September 9, 2001 | ALLAN HARRIS

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Mr. Harris, who lives in Las Flores, is a marketing manager at Beckman Coulter.

I am a self-confessed environmentalist wacko. So, I was elated to read that the Department of the Interior had struck a deal last week to protect 29 endangered species. But as I read on, I realized that we are no longer saving bison and bald eagles. I discovered two cases that point to the dangers of the current Endangered Species Act deployment by my fellow environmentalists. The cases of the Channel Island fox and the Mississippi gopher frog point to the misapplication of the Endangered Species Act as a means of land management and controlled growth, rather than as protection for unique wildlife habitat against man's encroachment.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Klamath_List I think that some people are beginning to see the abuse of the ESA!

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[meenie]

The ESA is a good example of the benefits we have received from the good old UN. Such foolishness is world-wide because of the biodiversity treaty our good Senate approved. This is a mandate from the UN and our power hungry Congress was only too happy to oblige.