Article: Endangered list is 'where species go to die,' critics say.

Byline: Sandy Bauers

PHILADELPHIA _ When a new list of species worthy of federal protection came out recently, the howls of protest were not about the ones that didn't make the list.

They were about the ones that did.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added seven species to a list now totaling 279 "candidates" _ those that warrant federal protection but are a few procedural steps away from being declared threatened or endangered.

The additions are two Florida butterflies, two Alabama snails, the pricklyapple cactus, the New England cottontail, and the red knot, a shorebird that alights on Delaware Bay beaches every spring to refuel on ...

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