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Credit Public Service Union Meanwhile, officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service struggle with programs that are hundreds of millions of dollars in the red. The agency routinely fails to make timely decisions, and nearly every decision it does make generates a lawsuit. As a result, court orders dictate many of the agency's actions.

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Credit Report Service In 30 years, only seven U.S. species have improved enough that they no longer need protection. And the best-known victories were easy. For example, the brown pelican and the peregrine falcon rebounded when the pesticide DDT was banned. Gray whales and gray wolves recovered when whaling and hunting were restricted.

Blogspot Com Christian The Bush administration doesn't like the law. Under Interior Secretary Gale Norton, listings of new species needing protection have slowed to a trickle, largely because the agency's budget is tied up in lawsuits, she said.

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Credit Federal Service Union Some politicians, such as Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, point to the endless squabbles, legal fights and dismal recovery rate as proof the law is broken.

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Card Credit Fleet Service "The conservation of species is not just a symbolic act," said Buskirk, who studies midsize carnivores such as the lynx and black-footed ferret. "It comes at a cost. And because the costs are larger than some folk want to pay, Congress has disabled the law by simply not funding it."

Card Consolidation Credit Last April, Gary Frazer, assistant director for endangered species at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, testified that the agency needed $153 million to address the backlog of obligations under two key programs: listing new species and designating the habitat they need to survive.

Credit Free Online Report The agency got only $12.3 million for those programs for 2004. That was double the 2002 budget and a third more than this year's.

Credit Federal First Service But slowly, a middle ground is emerging in the debate. It includes state efforts to protect species before they are listed, to head off listings - like Colorado's lynx reintroduction - and incentives for landowners who conserve vital habitat.

Consumer Credit Service Richard Knight, a professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, says protecting creatures that lack star power, such as the Preble's meadow jumping mouse, will take more: willingness to leave room for critters that writer Wallace Stegner called "the little live things."

Center Credit Family Service The fight over the mouse embodies both the power and the problem with the Endangered Species Act, Schlickeisen said. Some people want to save the mouse, others want to develop the land the mouse lives on.

Credit Reporting Service "By protecting habitat, the law creates incredible political pressure," he said. "And there has never been an administration or leadership in Congress that didn't bend somewhat to political pressures."

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Credit Free Report Service "The Endangered Species Act has essentially gone from being about the protection of species to stopping urban sprawl or development or what have you," said Christopher P. Massey, a staff attorney with the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

Card Credit Customer Discover In June, Massey sued the government on behalf of Douglas County builder Robert Hoff, who says that mouse habitat has devalued his land because he cannot fully develop it. He wants the mouse taken off the list.

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TERMS IN THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Ccs Credit Division Service Listing: To receive protection, a species must be designated as threatened or endangered by the federal government. The law allows citizens or groups to petition the government to list or delist a species and then sue if they don't like the result.

Credit Service Union Worker Recovery: The law's goal is to increase populations and remove threats to habitat to ensure the long-term survival of a listed species. Recovery has proved elusive - only 7 of the more than 1,200 species listed have rebounded enough to be removed from protection, though the bald eagle, gray wolf and grizzly bear may soon be delisted.

1st Credit Service Union Critical habitat: An area ruled essential to the survival of a threatened or endangered species. Federal agencies must consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the effect of actions they authorize, fund or carry out, on designated critical habitat.

Card Chase Credit Customer Consultation: The act requires all federal agencies to conserve listed species and ensure that their actions do not destroy or harm critical habitat. Any project that needs a federal permit and potentially affects a listed species must be cleared by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Card Chase Credit Service Candidate species: Species that the Fish and Wildlife Service says need protection, but cannot receive it because of budgetary shortfalls.

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Credit Plus Service Union The agreements provide landowners who agree to manage their lands or waters to benefit at-risk species the assurance that future conservation efforts will not result in land-use restrictions beyond those identified at the time of the agreement.

Credit Farm Service Habitat conservation plans: Agreements designed to offset any harmful effects the proposed activity might have on the species. The process allows development to proceed while promoting listed species conservation.

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Credit Paychex Service Tax When President Nixon signed the act in December 1973, it was seen as a no-brainer. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, scientists reported alarming declines in some of North America's most cherished wildlife. Gray whales, grizzly bears, and even the national symbol, the bald eagle, seemed destined for extinction.

Credit Service Tax So the act's authors gave it teeth: When scientific studies show an animal, plant or insect is in trouble, the Fish and Wildlife Service must limit activities that harm individual members of the species and designate "critical habitat" the population needs to survive. The law also requires the agency to recover endangered species "to a significant portion" of their range.

Aeon Credit Service And it gave citizens the power to sue if the government failed to act. That generated so many lawsuits that courts now essentially dictate how the Fish and Wildlife Service spends its budget.

Credit One Service Union Assistant Secretary of the Interior Craig Manson likened the agency's plight to "an emergency room where lawsuits force the doctors to treat sprained ankles while patients with heart attacks expire in the waiting room."

Bad Cell Credit Phone Service The money the agency spends defending the suits and complying with court orders should be spent on listing and recovery programs, said Manson, who oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Counseling Credit Debt Service He advocates reforming the law's "critical habitat" provisions, which federal biologists say almost always invite lawsuits from groups that feel too much or too little land was set aside.

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Card Credit Merchant "Habitat is critical for the survival of endangered species, but critical habitat as mandated by the Endangered Species Act is not," Manson told The Denver Post. "This is a classic example of good intentions failing the test of reality."

Counseling Credit Family Brock Evans, director of the Endangered Species Coalition, a Washington, D.C.-based conservation group, estimates there have been 60 or 70 congressional efforts to weaken the law.

Annual Credit Report Request "It's the strongest environmental law in the country," he said. "To me it's a miracle it has survived."

Area Bay Credit Service But Evans agrees with the law's critics on two main points: More effort should be made to keep species off the list and to expand incentives to protect habitat on private land.

Atlanta Consumer Counseling Colorado's governor says states can take the lead in species recovery by breeding species and releasing them, as Colorado has with endangered fish on the Colorado River. A state-run mousery, Owens has said, might solve the Preble's mouse problem.

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Aspire Card Credit Customer That approach, presented as a compromise, in reality is an assault on the Endangered Species Act, said Evans.

Card Counseling Credit Service "They've starved it so now they can claim it needs reform," he said. "And reform is code for, 'Gut the law so it doesn't function at all."'

Card Credit Online Processing By Theo Stein
Denver Post - 11/30/2003

Topic: Endangered Species

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