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SPQR Moderator	posted 12-29-2003 11:51 AM             Several newspapers had a couple of vapid editorials this last weekend regarding the ESA. The Rocky Mountain News included this self-congratulatory praise by ESA author Dingell mixed with the usual partisan hyperbole and this critique from Michael de Alessi of the Reason Foundation and a fellow of the Pacific Research Institute. There is discussion at the Volokh Conspiracy here and here regarding its myths and deficiencies. IP: Logged
setnahkt Member	posted 12-30-2003 08:27 PM             The particular gripe I have with the ESA is that it's biologically unrealistic. The Act protects not only "species" but subspecies, varieties of plants, and populations of vertebrates. While "species" at least has a definition, the authors of the Act did not seem to understand (or, cynically, maybe they did) that "subspecies" is simply a matter of opinion on the part of the classifying biologist (and many biologists don't even accept the concept), and "population" is even worse. There's no particular reason why some ornithologist couldn't define the "setnahkt's backyard robin" (Turdus migratorius setnahkti) as an endangered vertebrate population (only one pair extant, as near as I can tell) and inflict the entire panoply of the ESA on me. IP: Logged

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