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Protecting the Prairie Dog and Federal Overreach

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4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Protecting species is often a complicated task. It doesn't help when the feds overreach. Reed Watson of the Property and Environment Research Center comments.

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Efforts at private protection of species are often thwarted by federal law.

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That's federal law intended to protect species.

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But how that happens is a little counterintuitive.

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Reed Watson is president of the Property and Environment Research Center.

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We spoke in October in Bozeman, Montana about how to incentivize

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more private species protection.

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The case is about endangered species and it's about whether or not states can engage in activities to

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conserve endangered species that don't actually violate the act and

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that don't run afoul of the act provisions.

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