61.   The environmental movement is seeking the repeal of the legislation, which lowers the logging barriers erected by laws protecting endangered species, water quality and wildlife habitats.

62.   The National Wildlife Federation, however, says the bill favors landowners and would weaken current regulations protecting endangered species.

63.   The service would be required to honor existing court orders, but protecting new species would be left entirely to Norton and her subordinates.

64.   The solicitor general filed a brief before the Supreme Court arguing that the federal government had the authority to protect species that the interior secretary declared might be endangered.

65.   The Supreme Court gave environmentalists an important victory on Thursday, upholding federal rules that protect endangered species by barring the destruction of essential habitat on private land.

66.   The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that people can sue the federal government not only for doing too little to protect endangered species, but also for doing too much.

67.   The timber industry sees actions to protect endangered species as ways to tie up the forests and prevent timber harvesting.

68.   The Texas property rights movement sprang up last year as landowners decried federal laws aimed at protecting endangered species.

69.   The species bill would authorize landowners like big timber companies to develop comprehensive habitat conservation plans protecting many species at once.

70.   The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has begun a formal process of consulting with the Corps about how it plans to protect those species.