By TRIMMEL GOMES WISCONSIN
NEWS CONNECTION • JUL 25, 2018
MADISON, Wis. - Bird enthusiasts
and conservation groups say the Trump administration's plans to change the
Endangered Species Act would make it more difficult to recover threatened or
endangered birds.
The proposal, announced last week
by the Interior and Commerce departments, would end the practice of extending
similar protections to species regardless of whether they are listed as
"endangered" or "threatened."
Steve Holmer, vice president for
policy at the American Bird Conservancy, said those distinctions matter,
especially in the case of the piping plover, which is considered endangered
around the Great Lakes and threatened in other areas of the country. "It's
a very charismatic bird that nests on beaches," he said, "but now,
under this rule, it could be easier to remove some of that habitat because they
wouldn't look at it one project at a time. They would try to bury it within the
whole entire habitat."
Deputy Interior Secretary David
Bernhardt described the proposal as an effort to fulfill President Donald
Trump's executive order to scale back government regulation. Holmer said he'll
make his concerns known during the 60-day public comment period through the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and another government website.
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