Re: NANFA-- FW: FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND NATIONAL MARINE

Patrick Ceas (ceas_at_stolaf.edu)
Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:44:40 -0600

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Todd Crail wrote:

>Perhaps I'm just paranoid... But this makes me kinda uneasy. It seems
>there's a lot open for abuse with "You didn't try hard enough, practice
>enough bureaucracy, or know enough about how to heal the population of this
>organism, so we'll not list this species at this time".
>

The following line gives me cause for concern ...

the "policy requires the agencies to find that the effort is certain to
be implemented and sufficiently effective."

Hmmm, so, at current funding levels, the Administration can simply state
that it is not certain if a particular effort can be funded; therefore,
nothing will be done and the species/habitat will be allowed to decline
even further. Just like that, Norton et al. could do unbelievable damage.

Pat
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