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Show Garn blasts Endangered Species Act "The Endangered Species Act has been misused and applied too rigidly," said Utah Senator Jake Garn this week. In testimony before the Resources Protection Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Environment En-vironment and Public Works, Garn warned that unless flexibility is introduced in-troduced in the Act, "we risk its total repeal. The situation that prevails is not what Congress intended, and will not be tolerated by the American people." Noting that the Endangered En-dangered Species Act had acquired something of the character of a "sacred cow," Garn admitted that it might be dangerous to tamper with it. But, "something has to be done. If a dam project were going to eliminate the humpback whale, that would be one thing. But it threatens only an undistinguished fish, whose value to man lies only in its existence." |