Endangered Species Act working.(Commentary/Editorial)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: April 2, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Kenneth Duncan

Sen. Wayne Allard recently introduced legislation designed to gut the Endangered Species Act. Similar legislation sponsored by Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., recently passed in the House of Representatives. Both Pombo and Allard have claimed that the act does not work and called it a failure.

A recent study by the Center for Biological Diversity evaluated the effectiveness of the act in eight Northeastern states (www.esasuccess.org/repor...

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