“.I want to post this on a local political site but the first comment posted will be “Bush’s fault......””
Actually, it was Nixon’s fault. He signed the ESA that provided for ANYone to sue any federal agency to comply with anything they thought might interfere with habitat of an endangered species...will ALL atty. fees by by....US.
You are right AuntB, it started in the 1970s, the birth of the environmental” movement.
We Tennesseans experienced some of the earliest tests of the ESA, with the famed snail darter and the fight over the Tellico Dam.