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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
PLF effort pays off in announced removal of ESA protections for Modoc Sucker
On December 7, 2015, with much self-congratulatory horn-tooting, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would issuing a final rule removing the Modoc sucker
from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered
Species Act. The Service’s press release describes the action as a
success for the Service’s program of species recovery. One would not
even guess, from reading what the Service says about it, that the only reason the Service did this was years of litigation by Pacific Legal Foundation. PLF is pleased that this long overdue action is finally to be taken, and congratulates its client, the California Cattlemen’s Association,
for its dogged pursuit of this delisting. But the real story is rather
more tawdry than the Service’s victory lap would indicate. You can read the whole story here,
but the short version is that it is likely that this species should not
have been listed in the first place, and then should and would have
been delisted years ago but for bureaucratic inertia. In a final show of
bureaucratic flourish, the delisting would have been finalized months
ago if the Service had not forgotten to publish a notice in a local newspaper...press release
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