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Mike Waller

In a message dated 95-11-16 01:45:02 EST, esa-action at envirolink.org writes:

>LIST THE CACTUS WREN: Last Wednesday, the Southwest Center for
>Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, filed suit in federal court
>against the US Fish and Wildlife Service to force the agency to list
>the
>coastal cactus wren as an endangered species. The bird lives in
>cactus
>patches in Southern California's coastal sage areas, which are under
>development. The wren also falls under the statewide Natural
>Communities Conservation Program that helps to launch community
>efforts
>to preserve areas of backcountry habitat to enable native species to
>avoid becoming endangered. SCBD's David Hogan said that
>environmental
>groups suspect that the USFWS is treading lightly in its enforcement
>of
>the ESA because Republicans in Congress will use new species disputes
>as
>a focus point to weaken the Act.

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Date: 95-11-16 01:45:02 EST

ESA TODAY, Tues. Nov. 14, 1995, from the Endangered Species Coalition,
for more information call (202)682-9400 or e-mail jjontz at audubon.org

LIST THE CACTUS WREN: Last Wednesday, the Southwest Center for
Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, filed suit in federal court
against the US Fish and Wildlife Service to force the agency to list the
coastal cactus wren as an endangered species. The bird lives in cactus
patches in Southern California's coastal sage areas, which are under
development. The wren also falls under the statewide Natural
Communities Conservation Program that helps to launch community efforts
to preserve areas of backcountry habitat to enable native species to
avoid becoming endangered. SCBD's David Hogan said that environmental
groups suspect that the USFWS is treading lightly in its enforcement of
the ESA because Republicans in Congress will use new species disputes as
a focus point to weaken the Act.

NEW BATCH OF WOLVES TO BE RELEASED: Ten months after releasing 15
wolves along the Salmon River in Idaho, the USFWS is planning a second
release for January 1996. The USFWS called the first releases a
success, since most of the wolves are surviving and pairing up. The
long-term plan includes recovery zones in central Idaho, Montana and
Yellowstone National Park and aims to have a minimum of ten packs of ten
wolves by the year 2003. Ted Koch of the USFWS says, "We don't have a
schedule yet, but we're coordinating with British Columbia...to gather
more wolves sometime this winter." the second release will send 15
wolves to Idaho and 15 to Yellowstone.

US FOREST SERVICE - CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATORS?: Rep. Jack Metcalf (R-WA)
has asked the Justice Dept. to investigate the US Forest Service's
treatment of six Bellingham, WA environmental activists who were
allegedly chained to trees for eight hours without food, water or toilet
facilities. the activists were arrested for trespassing during an
October 30th protest against the Sugarloaf timber sale in southern
Oregon's Siskiyou National forest. In his letter to Attorney General
Janet Reno, Metcalf said that the activists have historically been
"harshly critical" of him. In fact, part of the activists' protest was
aimed against the salvage-logging rider, which Metcalf supported last
summer. Metcalf said he doesn't condone the protest, but he is
concerned that his constituents' civil rights may have been violated.
On November 11, Metcalf stated, "If these allegations are true, then the
Forest Service should be called on the carpet." Brian Vincent of the
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance said he was upset that a 14-year-old girl
and a 62-year-old woman were among the 90 protesters chained to trees.

BAD BILL, BAD!: In a La Crosse Tribune editorial, Josh Marks, Midwest
Regional Coordinator for the Endangered Species Coalition had this to
say about the Young/Pombo bill, "This bill is so extreme it's like
throwing the baby out with the bath water. Basically, it repeals the
ESA."