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    Well, Mike Vandeman said to All on 31 May
      about: Re: Endangered Species Lists?....
 

 MV> From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
 
 >I curious about lists of endangered species and species about to become 
 >endangered. Can anyone comment on these species and where I might get 
 >information about which critter are on the way out?

 MV> For birds, see _Save the Birds_, a great book covering all the issues
 MV> & great pictures also.


   While it contains few lists, anyone interested in endangered 
   species and the global mass extinction we have initiated, then
   E.O. Wilson's latest; The Diversity of Life is a must.
   -                     ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~ ~~~~ 
   Harvard biologist Professor EO Wilson invented the field of 
   social biology, and has two Pulitzers, and more.

   This is a must read for serious environmentalists.  A real
   page turner for me.  While his view may seem rather 
   anthropocentric, he recommends a Noss-like Wildlands, etc.

   Here is a respected source you can defend against any Nature Nazi
   or Wise Use legislator.  Now in paperback, by Norton press, 1992.

   If you are interested in a raw list there is a S.F. BBS that caries
   them.  (EarthHeart, or some such)  Let me know, and I will look it
   up.  I think it is several megs long, with thousands of entries.

   Endangered?  In five days alone last month; 164,000 delta smelt were 
   killed in the giant pumps of the State Water Project near Tracy.
   USFWS biologist Pine said; "Let's call it an unauthorized exceedence."
   
   Doug



... **  Species doomed by man per year:  27,000 min.  -- E.O. Wilson  **