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Article: 25 years, few results: Babbitt's endangered species list compiled by unendangered, but careless bureaucrats.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 19, 1999
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TRACY, Calif. _ With apologies to Lewis Carroll, author of ``Alice in Wonderland,'' I will now lead you through a modern day fairy tale about the Endangered Species Act, which has just completed its 25th year. It begins like this:
``Babbitt announces new policy, plans to 'delist' endangered species,'' proclaimed a Department of Interior press release on May 6, 1998. ``In the near future, many species will be flying, splashing and leaping off the list. They made it. They are graduating. They're coming back to their native American soil, water and wind,'' claimed Bruce 'The Mad Hatter' Babbitt.
Tell that to the Mariana mallard, one of the 'success ...