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Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

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FWS issued a recovery plan in 1991 and a five-year review that proposed downlisting to “threatened” in 2007. The proposed rule is here and virtually all relevant documents, including all of the supporting scientific literature, can be found here.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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He has done an enormous amount of research, carefully documented the text, and produced a bibliography 13 pages long. The political and legislative history and the role played by an upper-class, reserved Republican Senator from Connecticut is not.