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I can only hope that the birds are still dancing. Later this spring, I intend to return to the prairies near the town of Milnesand, New Mexico, this time with my nine-year-old twins in tow. The birds need lots of open space, and the new designation only puts some constraints on existing oil and gas operations, while limiting new development. But the prairie chicken, along with its high-profile distant cousin, the sage grouse, is running out of time. You’d think that identifying a species as “endangered” meant that there was still time to save it. But for our nation’s laws to really mean something, they must be enforced, even when - especially when - opponents are among the most economically and politically powerful industries. I am proud that our nation passed this powerful law to protect the diversity of life. The long struggle to keep the birds alive is far from over.įifty years ago, Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act to recognize the importance of endangered and threatened species, citing their “esthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational and scientific value to the Nation and its people.” The act’s vision was remarkable, and Americans are fortunate that the law fought for a half-century ago continues to be fought for today. Texas has also filed a lawsuit to block the listing, and Kansas and Oklahoma are threatening to sue. Tracy Mann, have already pressured the Fish and Wildlife Service to delay the date that the listing takes effect. Pump jacks and plows are the greatest threats to prairie chicken survival. Meaningful protection of this bird, whose habitat covers millions of acres across New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma, would mean restraint from the oil and gas and agricultural industries. Lesser prairie chickens now number about 30,000, less than 2% of what they were in the 19th century when the birds flourished in the hundreds of thousands.Ĭontroversy around granting Endangered Species Act protection for the lesser prairie chicken has mainly been about oil and gas development. In many parts of the West, it has disappeared entirely. The result since 1998 has been predictable: The bird’s numbers have plummeted. Precluded apparently meant, “We should list the birds but find it impossible to do that.”įor decades, the Fish and Wildlife Service, under pressure from opponents in Congress and powerful industries, has used this designation to delay Endangered Species Act protections for hundreds of species that need an ecological safety net, including the lesser prairie chicken. It relegated the lesser prairie chicken to what might be called endangered species purgatory - making its protection status “warranted but precluded” under the Endangered Species Act. Sent 19 bytes received 12 bytes 62.In June 1988, the Service did something seemingly mundane, though it had profound consequences. Sent 19 bytes received 12 bytes 62.00 bytes/sec md files, and solutions from all these pages didn't work for me: I'm trying to only backup specific files with rsync, to exclude all files, except some specific files, namely the.

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