Forwarded by Jane Clark
From:
             GREENLines, Tuesday, July 9, 2002, Issue #1657

     SWEETHEART SETTLEMENT NEGATES FROG C.H.: The Bush administration
     has reached a legal settlement with the Home Builders Association
     of Northern California to rescind critical habitat protection for
     the California red-legged frog on nearly 4 million acres says S.F.
     Chronicle 7/4.  Environmentalists involved in the court case
     called the sweetheart settlement a "concerted effort by the Bush
     administration to dismantle the ESA," with the red-legged frog now
     the "latest imperiled species to lose habitat protections in the
     past year, preceded by 19 species of West Coast salmon and
     steelhead and two imperiled birds - the pygmy owl and the
     southwestern willow flycatcher."

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