21.   The designation of critical habitat does not set aside a sanctuary or preserve, but precludes federally funded projects on such lands unless the projects undergo substantial review.

22.   The ESA is too tedious and punitive, and it fails to offer incentives for private property owners to preserve critical habitat.

23.   The ironwood landscape is also critical habitat for the desert Bighorn sheep.

24.   The orders force the service to engage immediately in the complex process of deciding how much land should be protected as critical habitat.

25.   The moratorium ended in April, but the administration now says there is too little money to save additional species or create new critical habitat.

26.   The plan attempts to preserve critical habitats for native fish by ridding them of non-native predators.

27.   Until Tuesday, the Fish and Wildlife Service had planned to study the warbler and its nesting grounds in Central Texas before deciding whether critical habitat designation was warranted.

28.   A critical habitat ruling describes the area where a species either lives or could live.

29.   And property values tend to drop near critical habitat, the wildlife service acknowledges.

30.   Farmers fear the possibility of new restrictions on private land along many Southwestern rivers, after the government declared the region a critical habitat for an endangered minnow.