And What’s Wrong With The Endangered Species Act?
by Tom Remington at Black Bear Blog [here]
It’s getting worse before, if ever, it will get better. Abuse of the Endangered Species Act is at an all-time high and rising like a rocket. Something must be done! (Scroll to bottom to find links to related articles)
Can it get any worse? Millions of dollars are being spent on lawsuits aimed at preserving habitat and some species of wildlife needlessly, with no end in sight. The ESA is being used as a lethal weapon that will destroy our property rights and further sink us into economic recession. It’s out of control.
In yesterday’s Tucson Citizen, B. Poole has an article that focuses the most of its attention on one such over the top environmental group called the Center for Biological Diversity. This is how Poole describes the efforts of this group.
The Center for Biological Diversity staff brandishes the Endangered Species Act like a blunt-force instrument. Leverage from its petitions and lawsuits - more than 500 in 18 years - helped gain protection for nearly a fourth of the 1,351 endangered or threatened plants and animals in the United States.
This has been much of my argument in the past about why we need to do something about the ESA. A piece of legislation that was created to insure that we humans wouldn’t knowingly wipe out a species of animal or plant, has now become a “blunt-force instrument”, costing taxpayers billions of dollars… [more]
Note: the comments following Tom Remington’s essay are quite good and very much worth reading, as is the rest of his essay.
by Gregory S.
It might do some good if you spell-checked your work. That would show some respect for the readers and editor/admin. It would also help you to communicate better with the audience. That’s what we are doing here-communicating-or trying to.
What good is ESA? The spotted owl act was a joke, now the grouse in Wyoming, look at all the people that it puts out of work, and you ask what is wrong with ESA, I say if it is an spieces that is becomming extinct and the ESA can save it and not put the spieces above human life or humans making a living to feed there family it is good, but not the way they have done things. But I can waste all kinds of time typing comments on here and what good will it do ? I dont like the way humans and there way of life doesnt matter, as long as there so called endangered spieces gets saved. I live in the south west and I dont feel that ESA does enough back ground checking on a spieces before calling it endangered, and when they do make a decission like the spotted owl and no logging, logging helped our country/forest to grow an be healthy, it is not healthy now by no means, all it is now is a fire hazard waiting for the right spark, it costs alot more money to get a fire under control because of all the extra brush, you dont see a orchard producing fruit or good trees with alot of growth around the trees, and the United Forest Service will blame it on some other organization before stepping up to the plate and taking care of what they take control over.I could go on and on and on… what is the point.