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This opinion piece was written in response to "Santa Ana Sucker: Balancing Conservation Efforts" by Doug Headrick published on April 29, 2011.

Doug Headrick’s latest attack on the Endangered Species Act sounds familiar. The recent emergency spending bill for the U.S. government included a provision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections from wolves in two states, while a new bill from Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) would override protections for the entire San Francisco-San Joaquin Bay Delta. Asking politicians to choose which species are pro! tected is a dangerous game. In the case of the sucker, such intervention is also utterly unwarranted.

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