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Biodiversity : what's the big deal?
August 30, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
Author: Damien M. Schiff So asks James McWilliams in a recent oped in the New York Times' Freakonomics blog. McWilliams, a professor at Texas State University and a professed environmentalist, makes the point that, because we don't know what is the "baseline" for prehistoric numbers of species on Earth, we cannot say ...
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Thoughts on PLF's delta smelt Commerce Clause challenge
October 13, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
Author: Brandon Middleton Last week a federal district court in Fresno rejected Pacific Legal Foundation's constitutional challenge to the federal government's devastating delta smelt water restrictions. Even though the delta smelt is a noncommercial species that is found only in California, the court ruled that the U.S. F ...