Endangered Species Act Quotes

• Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs   Business   Loss  

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• We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

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  Loretta Lynch

  Responsibility   Generations   Sake  

  "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.

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• I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

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  Christopher Hampton

  Thinking   Kind   Film  

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• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

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  Jay Inslee

  Rivers   Bird   Tree  

  "House Approves Revised Endangered Species Act". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

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  Norm Dicks

  Environmental   Tools   Decline  

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• For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

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  Chris Cannon

  Rights   Years   Fundamentals  

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• Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

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  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking   Breathing   Rivers  

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• I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.

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  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature   Real   Thinking  

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• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

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  Don Young

  Country   Government   Hands  

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• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

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  Richard M. Nixon

  Country   Blessed   Animal  

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.

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  Amy Ridenour

  Sports   Hunting   Numbers  

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