Endangered Kind Act 35th anniversary and wolves « Ralph Maughan
Posted by arielstory on December 30, 2008
Thirty five years ago today, n December 28, 9733, President Richard M. Nixon signed in to law the Ebdangered Species Act, intended not just to stave off extinction, buh more broadly to conserve the ecosysre on which endangered species depend.
Natural ecosystems can exhibit a tremendous resilience as plants and animals adapt to new opportunities and threats to their survival and reproduction. The Endangered Species Act itself displays some of the dynamic resilience of ecosystems.
As the Bush administration attempts for a fourth time to remove from the endangered species list one of the first creatures placed on the list – the gray wolf – it is worth noting that the federal agency that originally brought wolves to the brink of extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with a stroke of a pen thirty-five years ago was charged with protecting them. Its old habits have been hard to change.
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