Bogging Down the Endangered Species Conservation

Bogging Down the Endangered Species Conservation

Earlier this week the Center for Biological Diversity and several of their radical environmental group cohorts threatened to sue the Department of Interior as well as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force action on 417 proposed species that they demand the Fish and Wildlife make determinations on within the next year. Public Land Councils Executive Director Ethan Lane explains
Lane: “One of the long standing issues with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service implementation of the Endangered Species Act has been this growing effort of outside radical environmental groups to knock that process off its regular course by suing and pursuing a course of litigation by jam their agenda down the throats of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Specifically what they try and do is overwhelm the Fish and Wildlife resources so that they are focused solely on listing new species which leaves no resources left for recovering or delisting. That is why we see grizzly bears or gray wolves that have recovered and should be removed from the list — languishing years after their recovery dates with the onerous restrictions staying in place as well because of this abusive litigation environment we’ve gotten into.”
These actions would force resources away from the assessing, eventuating and conserving of the current endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Lane continues
Lane: “The livestock industry plays such a critical role in conserving these species. It is of upmost importance to us that the focus remains on those species that really need the attention. So when these non-stakeholders groups that are sitting in an office building in Tucson, Arizona or somewhere else they might be — inserting themselves into situations that they really don’t understand.”
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