The Endangered Species Act orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior, protect species recognized 【M1】 ______
as endangered, without regard of cost. The goal is to banish extinction from 【M2】 ______
the U.S. Unfortunately, the present system has managed utterly to do this. 【M3】 ______
Species are going extinct anyway, and the threats are multiplying. For every
species that Fish and Wildlife have successfully removed from the 【M4】 ______
endangered list in the past two decades, it has added more than one hundred
thers.
Because human interest cannot be ignored, not all species can be 【M5】 ______
saved. Yet the current system demands the unattainable all species must be
saved, and human benefits must be ignored. Amplifying this dissonance
has been an unwilling in Congress. As a result, file agency has been driven 【M6】 ______
to impose conservation tasks at those private-property owners who are 【M7】 ______
lucky enough to have land sustains endangered species. To be safe 【M8】 ______
against, possible prosecution, they must verify that using their property will 【M9】 ______
cause the creature no harm. Endangered species thus become a liability
that encourages otherwise responsible citizens to call in the bulldozers at the
first glimpse of an endangered bird and lizard. 【M10】 ______
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