[Lady Sidhe]

don't hold it against the critters, ok? Check this out, and I'd appreciate anyone who decides to sign it. Humor the tree-huggin' hippie. Pretty please with sugar and bananas and cherries and whatever else you like on top?

Thanks, guys

Sidhe



A hearing on Capitol Hill this week kicked off a drive to rewrite the law that protects more than 1,800 animal species believed to be near extinction. No details have emerged about what provisions might change, but the Chairman of the House Resources Committee is Richard Pombo who likes the Endangered Species Act about as much as he likes being photographed without his cowboy hat.

Since 1973, the Endangered Species Act has protected animals that might otherwise not survive human encroachment. But developers and others have complained loudly that the law limits their ability to profit from the land and have sought to make it less restrictive. The Senate subcommittee chairman who oversees the Act is Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, whose strong environmental record should give conservationists some comfort. But the hard-charging Pombo has already signaled he'll accept nothing less than radical changes in the law. Pombo is the same lawmaker who last week used a procedural maneuver to preserve taxpayer subsidies to logging companies in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska

http://action.lcv.org/campaign/endangered_species01?