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Disposable species?
The Bush administration is treading where no previous administration dared go with regard to protecting at-risk species under the Endangered Species Act. When petitioned to list the wolverine under the ESA, the Bush Fish and Wildlife Service declared that it was unnecessary because a) there are plenty of the feisty little animals in Canada, and b) we really don’t know enough about them in the lower 48, so we can’t really know for sure they’re endangered. Well, hey! What else do they have in Canada that is disposable here? Maybe we can just make monthly payments to Canada to protect all of the endangered species and habitat that are part of America's living legacy.
The administration wants to pass the buck for protecting rare species to Canada, and wolverine may go missing in the US.
Let Canada protect wildlife for us? Sounds like a plan. Since Canada already has their own, we won’t have to worry about eagles, salmon, grizzly bears, murrelets, bull trout, lynx, monarch butterflies, and caribou, falcons of all kinds, orcas or wolves either. I’m sure there’s a bunch of plants that we can let them handle, too.
The best thing is that we won’t have to bother the Fish and Wildlife Service to do all that expensive research and stuff to learn more about wolverine or other endangered wildlife before they disappear from US soil.
I guess, if the administration has its way, what we don't see and we don't know, we don't have to worry about. Thank goodness for that.
Disintegrating Laws eg Woverines