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...however you may scoff at the campaign to save the snail darter, environmental concerns about natural resource depletion are not contrary to the interests of American business, because businesses like the auto industry are only viable as long as we have enough of the resources their products consume...
Will they be saved? The Endangered Species Act is up for reauthorization this year, and a throng of interest groups is determined to weaken it. Not since 1977, when an 8-cm (3-in.) fish called the snail darter halted construction of Tennessee's Tellico Dam, has this critical piece of environmental legislation generated so much controversy...
...people to sacrifice in the name of other creatures. After all, it is hard enough to ask people to sacrifice in the name of other humans. (Think of the chronic public resistance to foreign aid and welfare.) Ask hardworking voters to sacrifice in the name of the snail darter, and, if they are feeling polite, $ they will give you a shrug...
...that the spotted owl has joined the dam-busting snail darter on the endangered-species list, President Bush wants to dilute the act that protects them. Some other denizens...
...northern spotted owl has become to the timber industry what the tiny snail darter was to dam builders -- a symbol for environmentalists, only cuter. In the 1990s, the owl may curb logging in the Pacific Northwest just as the small fish temporarily halted construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee. Last week a panel of federal scientists called for a halt to logging on up to 40% of the national forest land in Oregon, Washington and California to keep the owl from becoming extinct. An estimated 1,700 pairs survive, a drop of more than half the population since...