Republican senator wants to undermine the law that saved the bald eagle

[turbinetree]

Endangered Species Act supporters warn proposed bill would cripple the law.

MARK HAND JUL 2, 2018, 3:40 PM

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) released draft legislation on Monday that could severely undermine the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a hugely popular law that has helped save the bald eagle and thousands of other species from extinction.

The proposed legislation would shift key authority for conserving threatened and endangered species away from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to individual states. States would be granted authority to write species recovery goals, habitat objectives, and other criteria for delisting at-risk animals and plants under the ESA.

Many states, however, lack the resources to protect imperiled wildlife and plants. State governors, who often oppose protections for endangered species, also would be granted the power to veto scientific decisions about those protections.

“This partisan bill is all about politics, at the expense of sound science and the species that depend on it for survival,” Jamie Rappaport Clark, president and CEO of Defenders of the Wildlife, said Monday in a statement. “It is a reckless power grab designed to wrest away authority from scientists and wildlife experts and give it to states that lack the resources — and sometimes the political will — needed to save wildlife from extinction.”

https://thinkprogress.org/republican-senator-wants-to-undermine-law-that-saved-the-bald-eagle-de7a269ed313/

The last time I checked the state of Wyoming has more antelope that are smarter than this Barraso asshole.

I just wonder while he is fingering through his latest oil bribes me money catalog on fracking and drilling, and how some ranchers want to poison eagles and other birds of prey, if he ever picked up the The Wyoming Magazine, the one that I have been getting for over 20 plus years, that even though the state has a conservation plan in place that it still needs federal resources......to protect the blackfooted ferret, or the eliminate invasive walley and pike in some lakes and streams

[hlthe2b]

1. Barasso is as ignorant a physician imo, as he is depraved as a Senator

He used to do PSA's on WY pubic radio with medical "advice" which were often so deplorable and lacking in evidence, the State Health Dept had to talk with him, when he countered the public health advisement they were trying to disseminate. I don't know what it is with conservative physicians, but I've seen the ideology "infect" practice enough that it just might be worth considering when you choose a doctor.

[turbinetree]

3. Yepper, spot on

Natrona county finest .............. I wonder if he remembers what the oil refinery did to the land east of Evansville with the water supply, probably has no clue while he was fingering through his latest addition of bribe me catalog from the oil and gas companies..............while being a orthopedic doctor

[Bayard]

2. The symbol of our country

Land of the free, home of the brave does not matter to these people. Its a stupid bird.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. If the D's were half as good at working the press as the R's

We'd be hearing "Republicans are actively working to exterminate the symbol of our country" on every news show.

(with a dollop of "are they doing this to please Putin?" thrown in)