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...only people who oppose environmentalist laws are greedy industrialists and arrogant Darwinians convinced of Homo sapiens' innate superiority. In fact, the dissenters are more likely to be working-class Americans, like the loggers in the Northwest who are losing their jobs because virgin forests they cut are the habitat of the endangered spotted...
...little shore birds caught in oil spills, but also to rare species of beetles and other less cuddly creatures that happen to live on private property. The development of many small businesses has been halted by the government because the land in question is a rare bug's natural habitat...
...looks straitjacketed in a dark suit. He seems caged in his chair in an Indianapolis courtroom as a demure 18-year-old from Rhode Island, a contestant in the Miss Black America Pageant last July, testifies that he raped her. But in his natural habitat, the boxing ring, Mike Tyson is a creature in - implacable forward motion. He just keeps coming, and you go down. He cuts you like a buzz saw, crushes you like a tree falling on a sleepy squirrel...
Frustrated with the legislature's inability -- or unwillingness -- to get the job done, citizens have passed ballot initiatives to protect the 1,100- mile coastline, establish a fund to buy habitat for mountain lions, and authorize a bond issue to provide funding for parks and wildlife habitat. But enforcement of these laws has been so ineffectual that some enviros (as they are called in California) have turned to the courts, suing to protect the delta smelt, salmon and other species. More radical groups like Earth First! resort to direct action: blockading logging sites and driving spikes into redwoods so that...
...delta smelt. Efforts are also under way to restore flow to the San Joaquin and Trinity rivers. Water consultant Mark Reisner and the Nature Conservancy have worked with rice growers, the most water-intensive farmers, to promote a plan to store water on paddies, creating wetlands and riverside habitat during the winter. Perhaps the most important aspect of Reisner's project is that it has got the warring water users to talk to each other...