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Author: Reed Hopper On Friday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that "the greater sage-grouse warrants the protection of the Endangered Species Act but that listing the species at this time is precluded by the need to address higher priority species first."  In reality, this decision may be based more on a recogniti ...

Author:  Reed Hopper In almost all cases, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service overstates Critical Habitat for threatened and endangered species.  This is because the Service is unwilling or unable to expend the resources to determine those areas actually occupied by the species and which are essential to the conservation of the spe ...

Author: Reed Hopper The Lake Berryessa News is carrying an article provocatively entitled: "Polar Bears as Political Pawns: President Obama sides with George Bush!"  The author admits the title is misleading because the brunt of the story is that environmentalists have been using the polar bear as political pawns, not Bush and ...

Author: Reed Hopper A few years ago, Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct mandatory 5-year status reviews for more than 100 threatened or endangered species in the State of California.  It was the largest lawsuit of its kind in the history of the Endangered Species Act … ...