Migratory Bird Treaty Act reform will clarify longstanding confusion
Uncertainty breeds inefficiency. Clarifying the law on migratory birds will cut red tape... if reforms survive legal challenge.
Uncertainty breeds inefficiency. Clarifying the law on migratory birds will cut red tape... if reforms survive legal challenge.
By Greg Walcher Greens are angry that Interior modified a last-minute Obama Administration rule on migratory birds they wanted to use to attack energy and ranching. The rule had been in effect for only 27 days.
After 30 years, residents of King Cove, Alaska finally won approval for the construction of a road connecting their remote Aleutian fishing village to an all-weather airport. Yet the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and their ilk would have the world believe that an 11-mile-long, single-lane gravel road will put birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway in peril.
The Trump administration is moving to bring much-needed clarity to a century-old bird-protection statute