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Endangered Species Act Leads To Disaster

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Eric Alexander
31 October 2003 - 9:00am

Fifteen years of the Endangered Species Act has caused a species disaster in California's fires.

"For 15 years the federal government, urged on by environmental activists and assisted by state agency bureaucrats, has pursued an aggressive displacement of local authorities from the control of land use policies, all in the name of environmental protection. The result is an environmental disaster on a monumental scale... The post-mortem on the fires should lead to the most brutal review of the federal Endangered Species Act in its 30 year history... Habitat conservation planners would be well advised to remember that the proximity of human housing to species preserves isn't a threat to those preserves, it is a guarantee of active and species-saving management."

Full Story: Up In Smoke: A decade and a half of species protection planning helps bring on a species disaster in the fires of California
Source: The Weekly Standard, October 30, 2003
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