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Full Title:Scientist’s Computer Projections Fail to Reveal Tree Threatened by Fatal Disease, Extinction Likely (Opinion is Divided, though a Review is Unlikely) Subtitled: Computer Model Revealing lack of alligators at North Pole is cause for Concern (Environmentalists Shout Save Allie!) There are two bills in Congress,H.R. 2829 and H.R. 3705, to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973. If approved, the law would require empirical, field-tested data and peer-reviewed data for ESA action. Too much analytical modeling-theory is the trend, a method that has been shown to fail expensively with attempts to manufacture habitat for the Piping Plover in Nebraska....

Madison wrote: “There are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation." Today, the Tree of Liberty has been pruned and a mutated branch of government has been added, disguised as protection, based on a Conglomerate of foundations, corporations, environmental groups, and bureaucracy. In Michigan, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in 1996 based on the National Environmental Policy Act. The suit, recently resolved (March 2002), was an attempt to tie up money generated by sportsmen and sports-persons, money that has been used...