51.   Similarly, efforts to protect endangered species like salmon, grizzly bears and owls are regarded as threats to Westerners.

52.   Species conservation agreements protect rare species through a program of inventory, monitoring, research and public education.

53.   Some of that has been to protect species, especially as environmental groups launch legal appeals to stop cutting.

54.   The administration has also weakened a pending regulation requiring more-efficient air conditioners, and submitted a budget request that would cut back funding for protecting endangered species.

55.   The bill would emphasize protecting species on lands already set aside for conservation, such as the huge tracts of protected wilderness and national parks in the West.

56.   The case now will determine whether landowners and businesses can use the law to attack government decisions about which species to protect, and what habitat restrictions to impose.

57.   The Basin Association also is recommending that the Corps establish a recovery committee, which would address how endangered species might be protected.

58.   The Clinton administration supports the overhaul, which would codify many of the innovative approaches to protecting imperiled species that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit has adopted over the years.

59.   The county has been the scene of protests, rallies and protest marches against laws protecting endangered species.

60.   The decision was the first time a federal agency had approved killing a federally protected marine mammal to protect a species it preys on.