Add one more potential victim to the catalog of high-profile species likely to be harmed by the Endangered Species Act. The sage grouse, a large ground-dwelling bird that inhabits 165 million acres in 11 Western states, including Montana, appears headed for listing under the act, much to the detriment of both the grouse and […]
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Federal bureaucracy gets in the way of complex ongoing relationships that serve civil society. If you want to see the case for limited government, consider that there’s a siege happening in some dusty corner of Nevada over tortoise welfare. Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher currently engaged in a standoff with the federal government over grazing […]
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The recovery of the gray wolf may stand as the pinnacle of the Endangered Species Act’s (ESA) success. This summer the wolf will probably be “delisted” as endangered in Minnesota. At a meeting on June 2 called by U.S. Senator Conrad Burns, Republican from Montana, Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator of the U.S. Fish and […]
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Americans have become increasingly supportive of environmental protection. Ironically, however, recent battles to save endangered species jeopardize the survival of this conservation movement. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) itself may be endangered. How have we gone astray with endangered species? Let’s first consider the Act’s history. The 1973 passage of the ESA expanded the federal […]
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