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Search results for "Endangered Species Act" ...
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No title (id: 9787)
New Times (Phoenix, Ariz.) exposes how the University of Arizona circumvented environmental laws, acted outside of public oversight and intimidated student opposition groups and individuals in order to build an observatory in the habitat of an endangered species of squirrel, June 16, 1993.
Tags: AZ Dougherty 18 pages
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Struggle to survive
Sacramento Bee reporter analyzes U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data to find the flaws in implementation of the Endangered Species Act; finds an agency so overwhelmed by an enormous workload, anemic budget and politically charged agenda that it cannot protect the species it is charged with protecting; finds that spending on mammals and birds far outweighs that on all other species combined.
Tags: CA Clemings
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No title (id: 8564)
High Country News (Paonia, Colo.) writes of the dramatic decline in the salmon in the Pacific Northwest, with 95 percent of the juvenile salmon killed by dams and reservoirs in the Columbia and Snake Rivers; the federal endangered species act restricts the killing of species that fall under the act, and the National Marine Fisheries Service declared a species of salmon to be endangered, March 9, 1992.
Tags: None
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Save our salmon, save our soul
The Nation profiles the growing controversy over salmon and the damming of the Columbia and Snake rivers in Washington State and Oregon; 96 percent of the natural salmon stock no longer exist in the rivers because of hydroelectric plants; the Endangered Species Act is examined as a means of assisting the survival of the remaining salmon.
Tags: Environment; wildlife; animals; fish; ecology