Letters Alert: Endangered Marbled Murrelet Habitat
Public COMMENTS NEEDED on endangered marbled murrelet habitat For a moment, imagine yourself in charge of a wildlife agency responsible for ensuring that our premier environmental law-the Endangered Species Act (ESA)-was working to help endangered species recover. You learn that the population of a bird dependant upon old growth forests for habitat has plummeted dramatically over the last couple decades, hanging on the precipice of extinction in some areas, including California. What would be the responsible and logical thing for you to do? Slash its critical habitat acreage by over 90 % ? That is precisely what the U.S. Fish …