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Article: Endangered Species Day Highlights Need for Reform; Current Act Threatens Both Property Owners and Wildlife
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- U.S. Newswire
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- May 10, 2006
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DALLAS, May 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Early last month, Congress
passed a resolution designating tomorrow Endangered Species Day.
National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) Senior Fellow H. Sterling
Burnett suggests the day would be a perfect time to end the perverse
incentives that pit property owners against wildlife.
"For too long bureaucratic wrangling has harmed both endangered
species and people," Burnett said. "Instead, we should provide
private property owners with an incentive to create, enhance and
improve habitat for endangered species."
Seventy-five percent of endangered species depend upon private
property owners for their habitat requirements in whole or in part.
"The best ...