It's an unfortunate commentary on the willingness of this administration to undermine the Endangered Species Act. Despite its small size this toad needs a lot of land to complete its life cycle.

It doesn't really matter whether it's the federal government that oversees the protection of endangered species and open space conservation or the state,

Federal agencies shouldn't be able to dodge their obligations to protect endangered species by delegating important decision to the states. The state doesn't have the authority to protect endangered species the way the feds do.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

Any money to protect habitat and species is good but the amount of money here is extraordinarily small relative to the land values,