1/25/2005 07:15:33 AM|||Toni|||HoustonChronicle

It is amazing that the Endangered Species act has been reduced to protecting:

...After the developers installed roads and utilities, the federal government in 1988 documented five endangered invertebrates in caves and sinkholes and caves on the property. A sixth species was added later. The Kretschmarr Cave mold beetle, Tooth Cave spider and other bugs are a fraction of an inch long.

This development of private property has been hijacked since1983.
The court challenge began with plans by Austin dentist Fred Purcell and business partners to develop 216 acres they purchased in Travis County in 1983. Byfield said the acreage involved has since shrunk to about 120 because of foreclosure.

This is what the religion of environmentalism has wrought today.
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