Statement re: Final Rules Eliminating Blanket 4(d) Protections and Revising Critical Habitat Exclusions Under Section 4(b)(2)

These rule changes dismantle essential protections for imperiled species, will unduly burden the under-resourced US Fish and Wildlife Service, and degrade the integrity of what is designed to be a science-based critical habitat designation process under the ESA. Save the Manatee Club opposes these final rules in the strongest possible terms. The post Statement re: Final Rules Eliminating Blanket…