September 22, 2004, 09:27 AM
Feds to protect habitat of endangered bug
In the latest sign that federal officials don't care how stupid they look, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will identify and protect the habitat of the Hine's emerald dragonfly.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., signed an order last week to implement the agreement, said Brent Plater, an attorney for one of the groups, the Center for Biological Diversity.
The settlement “will force the Bush administration to put the developers' interests aside and rely on science, protecting our region's precious natural heritage,” Plater said Tuesday.
Apparently the threatened insect's habitat is being destroyed by the creation of new farmland. From my perspective, any choice between feeding a productive society of people, and protecting a strain of bug is really no choice at all.
Besides, those dragonflies are a pain to get out of the grille of my car. Sayonara, boys.
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