Any legislation to take the sting out of the ESA is a dog, and pony show, to make us beilieve something is being done to help us. As long as we have the ESA the greens will keep winning, they get paid a salary to defeat us, we have to make a living, and fight them in our off time. They have more money than we could possibly raise, and they are willing to spend it all on frivolous law suits that they know they can't win, they know we don't have the money to keep fighting them in court.
The only thing that will take the sting out of the invasion of the greens is to bring the ESA up for a vote, in the Senate, and vote to not ratify it again. Until the voters wake up, and fire a bunch of green friendly Senators that is not going to happen.
And your confidence in this happening would be.....?
You said yourself, "They have more money than we could possibly raise." No kidding. When an organization can dally-up $13 million to buy 800 acres and hold it until the government can acquire the money to buy it from them, we're not talking grass-roots anymore.
The ESA will be thirty next year. All indications are it will go on to live to a ripe, a very "ripe" old age.