Since you have the book, you can find reference to that 1940 treaty that set up ESA and sold out the rights of property owning, taxpaying and voting Citizens.
What possible use is "owning" anything if that doesn't include "controlling" it? That doesn't mean one's use includes the right to threaten the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of one's neighbor. All rights are reciprocol among PEOPLE, NOT flora and fauna. Boundaries and borders of properties and jurisdictions must continue to be legitimate.
What has been missing is a system of quantifying transcient elements, i.e., flora & fauna, that cannot recognize said boundaries and borders. The same arguments apply to illegal immigration, etc.
Accountability and control mechanisms are now feasible and can add values to our economic system to incentivise true protections for habitats on a fair and equitable basis without forced and phony mitigation schemes that rarely work.
I'm coming back in a few minutes to post a LibertyMatters.com article about our 32nd "Earth Day." The wasted effort and squandered costs are one of the biggest "Black Holes" in our economic system of pseudo capitalism.
Earth Day, 32 Years of It
April 22, 2002 marks the 32nd anniversary of Earth Day. Its founders patterned it after anti-Vietnam War protests, but this event was organized as a national grassroots demonstration on behalf of the environment. The observation has evolved into one dominated by professional environmental organizations that employ armies of lawyers, lobbyists and public affairs specialists and whose top managers pull down six-figure salaries.
Information provided by the National Center for Public Policy Research Earth Day 2002 Fact Sheet; shows that federal environmental regulations have caused the costs of building single family homes in three American cities, Cincinnati, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to triple between 1974 and 1994.
Administrative costs to write and enforce federal regulations for fiscal year 2001 is estimated at $19.8 billion and staff numbers for the 54 federal regulatory agencies have ballooned to 131,983.
Americans had to spend $843 billion to comply with the rules in 2000, or $8,164 per household.
Ninety per cent of all businesses in the United States employ fewer than 20 people, which translates to a cost of $7,000 per employee for the firms to comply with federal rules.