oldno7
08-17-2019, 11:03 AM
This is long over due...
Now when we buy Greenland, we can immediately start hunting Polar bears:2thumbs:
Most of the lawmakers who voted for the ESA in 1973 no doubt thought they were doing something that would save the bald eagle, California condor, or some other national treasure from extinction. Little did they realize that, over the decades, the law would become a land-use tool adroitly applied by environmental groups to shut down any commercial activity they disliked.
And for all the disruption the ESA has caused, most of it in the rural West, as a legal instrument to recover species, it has been a complete dud. Of the 1,661 species listed (https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp0/reports/box-score-report) as threatened or endangered, only 3 percent have been recovered - paltry even for a government program.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/endangered-species-act-reforms-will-benefit-wildlife-and-people/ar-AAFUcd7
Now when we buy Greenland, we can immediately start hunting Polar bears:2thumbs:
Most of the lawmakers who voted for the ESA in 1973 no doubt thought they were doing something that would save the bald eagle, California condor, or some other national treasure from extinction. Little did they realize that, over the decades, the law would become a land-use tool adroitly applied by environmental groups to shut down any commercial activity they disliked.
And for all the disruption the ESA has caused, most of it in the rural West, as a legal instrument to recover species, it has been a complete dud. Of the 1,661 species listed (https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp0/reports/box-score-report) as threatened or endangered, only 3 percent have been recovered - paltry even for a government program.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/endangered-species-act-reforms-will-benefit-wildlife-and-people/ar-AAFUcd7