"5 Big Ideas for Improving the Endangered Species Act" is good overall. That said, three of the ideas of Jackie Flynn Mogeson are already in the current ESA, just need to be used more. I support all of them, especially as they would let the ESA deal with climate change, and preserve habitat for ecosystems, not just species.
But, two of them? Not so much.
First? Carrots for landowners? I'm OK on that PENDING the landowner's overall holdings, previous history, individual vs corporate farm (no ESA carrot for Central Valley pistaschio grower numnutz, for example) and related. And, the author mentioning the spotted owl is strawmanning. Western national forests are the heart of where it lives; private West Coast monocrop forests, like Weyerhauser, couldn't give a shit about spotted owls.
"Embrace delistings"? Wingnut lawsuits will force them on us anyway, and this is otherwise a "given them an inch, they'll take a mile" issue, so no.
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