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Author:  Damien M. Schiff The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will revisit its 2003 decision to remove the Sacramento splittail from Endangered Species Act protections.  The decision is the result of a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity contending that the delisting was improperly influenced b ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week, Pacific Legal Foundation filed comments on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's status review for the Sacramento splittail (a small fish) under the Endangered Species Act.  The Service has initiated the status review to determine whether the splittail, which was listed in 1999, and delis ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Today, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service issued a 12-month finding under the Endangered Species Act on whether to list the Sacramento splittail, a small fish found only in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.  The Service determined that the listing is not warranted, largely because the splittail's ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Columnist Michael Fitzgerald of The Stockton Record ran this vituperation yesterday excoriating the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for allowing millions of Sacramento splittail to be destroyed by the water pumps in the south Delta.  Setting aside the obviously intemperate and unreasonable tone of ...