{"id":12266,"date":"2023-11-25T01:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T01:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2023-11-25T01:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T01:47:30","slug":"the-endangered-species-act-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12266","title":{"rendered":"The Endangered Species Act at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The law takes a regulation-first approach that all too often makes an endangered species a liability to avoid, rather than an asset to conserve. The presence of a listed species can bring prohibitions on how property owners can use their land or even forbid state biologists from relocating animals to a proper habitat. Even the mere existence of habitat for a listed species can lower land values by entangling properties with federal designations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Punitive policies turn would-be partners in recovery into enemies of rare species. It&#8217;s why a popular colloquial stance toward endangered species has long been called &#8220;the three S&#8217;s&#8221;: shoot, shovel, and shut up. It&#8217;s unfortunate, because farmers, ranchers, and other private citizens provide the majority of habitat for many listed species, and an estimated two-thirds of all listed species have at least some habitat on private land. Unless there&#8217;s a change in the law&#8217;s approach toward the people who can provide so much important habitat for at-risk species, the prospects for rare species don&#8217;t seem likely to improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/11\/12\/the-endangered-species-act-at-50\/\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/11\/12\/the-endangered-species-act-at-50\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The law takes a regulation-first approach that all too often makes an endangered species a liability to avoid, rather than an asset to conserve. The presence of a listed species can bring prohibitions on how property owners can use their land or even forbid state biologists from relocating animals to a proper habitat. Even the mere existence of habitat for a listed species can lower land values by entangling properties with federal designations.<\/p>\n<p>Punitive policies turn would-be partners in recovery into enemies of rare species. It&#8217;s why a popular colloquial stance toward endangered species has long been called &#8220;the three S&#8217;s&#8221;: shoot, shovel, and shut up. It&#8217;s unfortunate, because farmers, ranchers, and other private citizens provide the majority of habitat for many listed species, and an estimated two-thirds of all listed species have at least some habitat on private land. Unless there&#8217;s a change in the law&#8217;s approach toward the people who can provide so much important habitat for at-risk species, the prospects for rare species don&#8217;t seem likely to improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/11\/12\/the-endangered-species-act-at-50\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12267,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions\/12267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}