Expanded fire suppression efforts may be the only way to save these species from extinction, ... The good news is that fire suppression should also benefit nearby human residents.

Any money to protect habitat and species is good but the amount of money here is extraordinarily small relative to the land values,

A species on the brink of extinction isn't going to reverse after only 30 years.

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

We are experiencing rather erratic fire behavior due to the increase in winds, ... This is hampering suppression efforts.

It doesn't really matter whether it's the federal government that oversees the protection of endangered species and open space conservation or the state,