On the recordMarch 3, 1995
Reclaiming my time, what this stick of compensation is designed to do is to force the Federal Government in the first instance to make the right decision, to protect in this particular instance the warbler and the vireo. Other things could be done. You have State properties in this particular area where there was a concerted effort to save those birds. The fountain darter, there are things that could be done to propagate and actually increase the population and actually introduce this to the ecosystem of Texas. In regard to the eagle's nest I talked about just a minute ago, through cooperative effort people would bend over backwards in my area to protect if in fact that was an eagle's nest. But what has happened is we have lost the cooperation and the consultation with and of that local private landowner and that is what this legislation is designed to protect. This amendment guts it.
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