In case you are wondering in 20 yrs, what ever happened to the amphibians you like, think about the power a single presidential administration has in its short 4 yrs...
Feds Slash Proposed Vernal Pool Habitat
The Bush administration has slashed the acreage proposed as critical habitat for California's vernal pool species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Aug. 6 that it was recommending only 740,000 acres of the 1.7 million proposed acres be protected.
The government claimed that economic interests were more important than protecting vernal pool habitats. The move exposes more than 15 endangered plant and animal species to potentially devastating development pressures.
Vernal pools are tiny inland wetlands that come alive in spring with tiny freshwater fairy shrimp and colorful wildflowers. Summer heat quickly forces many vernal pool creatures to go dormant until the next year's rains. Demand for housing in the Central Valley has already destroyed many acres of the rare pools. Development is restricted on lands designated as critical habitat for endangered species.
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*Humans aren't the only species on earth... we just act like it.
".the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without
spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
