Photograph Source: Eric Kilby – CC BY-SA 4.0

This week the Trump administration, with the most corrupt cabinet in the nation’s history, moved to gut the Endangered Species Act while the world is experiencing what’s been called the “Sixth Mass Extinction Event” with more than a million species facing extinction from human-caused impacts.

Since Montana retains virtually all of the species that were here when Lewis and Clark’s expedition rolled through more than 200 years ago, it’s particularly bad news. A number of those native species already listed as threatened or endangered could now face extinction – which would leave our state much diminished simply to favor extractive industries.

This is nothing new from a president and administration that seem to live in the past. But inexorably denying the ever-worsening climate crisis and the fact that you cannot infinitely exploit finite resources for the demands of continuous growth does not make it reality.

The changes would leave species........

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