home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=90TT1830>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: Endangered List Of Endangered Species
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Endangered List Of Endangered Species
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Now that the spotted owl has joined the dam-busting snail
- darter on the endangered-species list, President Bush wants to
- dilute the act that protects them. Some other denizens:
- </p>
- <p>-- Stephens' kangaroo rat. A 3-in.-long nocturnal rodent
- found in a small section of Riverside County, Calif. Protecting
- it has interfered with Medfly spraying and has delayed
- construction of new housing.
- </p>
- <p>-- Least Bell's vireo. A bird that nests on the banks of
- Southern California streams, its listing in 1987 was fiercely
- opposed by local developers. The Marine base at Camp Pendleton
- has been designated a critical habitat for the vireo.
- </p>
- <p>-- Flattened musk turtle. An Alabama reptile listed in 1987
- because it was threatened by runoff from old coal mines. Local
- Congressmen claimed that protecting it could cost billions, but
- the ruckus died down when new mines were able to meet
- standards.
- </p>
- <p>-- Colorado squawfish. A $590 million water project has been
- put on hold because it would threaten the survival of this
- outsize predator. The project would benefit the Ute Indians,
- who had been scheduled to receive water under a 1986 agreement
- with Washington.
- </p>
- <p>-- Mount Graham red squirrel. One of 25 subspecies, it has
- pitted conservationists against astronomers who want to build
- an observatory atop Arizona's Mount Graham.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-