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"Species Protection Act 'Broken'
A top Interior official says the law should be revised to give economic and other interests equal footing with endangered animals and plants.

By Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer

SANTA BARBARA — A senior official of the U.S. Interior Department, in a wide-ranging critique of the Endangered Species Act, said Thursday that the needs of an expanding population, agriculture interests and burgeoning development in the West should be given equal consideration with endangered plants and animals."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-species14nov14,1,4849729.story?coll=la-headlines-california