9/20/2004
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UTAH STATE FISH HEADED TO COURT
On 9-8-04, the Center for Biological Diversity, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, and the Pacific Rivers Council notified the Bush administration that it will soon file suit over the administration's refusal to protect the Bonneville cutthroat trout under the Endangered Species Act. Logging, cattle grazing, pollution, mining, water pumping and exotic trout have eliminated Utah's state fish from 90 percent of its historic range.
The Bush administration has placed only 31 species on the endangered list, compared to 394 species protected during the Clinton administration's first term and 234 during the first Bush presidency. The administration has denied the safety net of the Endangered Species Act to more species (45) than it has protected.
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