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...willing to take their chances with the court's wrath. They know that no smart politician will ever send in marshals to enforce the judicial order. "If I'm guilty of praying, I can live with that," says Dan Schlafer, a high school principal and devout Roman Catholic in Tellico Plains, Tenn., who was fired from coaching football after he refused to stop praying at games. He adds, "If this is anarchy, then perhaps we need more...
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...
...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...
This legislation was enacted after the Supreme Court upheld the Interior Department's ban on completing the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam because it threatened the snail darter with extinction. After the newly created committee reviewed the Tellico case, and still determined that the dam should not be completed, Senator Howard Baker, (R-Tenn) wrote and passed legislation that exempted Tellico from all federal legislation. The dam's gates closed earlier this year, and the snail darter has been abandoned to its fate...
...small reserve at Georges Bank are hard to turn down. Two decades of fishing might be worth $3.3 billion. Two decades of oil should earn about $7 billion at current prices. President Carter, whose standing among environmentalists dropped last month when he signed legislation to complete Tennessee's Tellico Dam, has quietly come out in favor of the drilling...