The link Sean recommends goes to a regulations site that seems to provide only a chance to comment on the site, not on the regulations. The comments page has this caveat: "Please do not submit comments or submissions on specific regulatory documents using this form as they cannot be forwarded to the proper Federal agencies via this mailbox." The site also shows a comment expiration date of 7 February.
Warren W. Aney Tigard, Oregon -----Original Message----- From: Sean Hoban [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 08 February, 2012 06:25 To: [email protected]; Warren W. Aney Subject: Re: request for your comments concerning proposed changes to Endangered Species Act I would like to encourage everyone who is signing the letter to also take five to ten minutes to write specific comments and suggestions to the website that the Fish and Wildlife Service has for the proposal: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FWS-R9-ES-2011-0031-0001. You can enter comments up to 2000 characters, and the form is very easy to fill out. While the number of names on the letter sponsored by the CBD is important, I think that an equally democratic and scientifically useful contribution is to write particular critiques, based on our specific experiences as ecologists or conservation biologists in our studies of range edges, small populations, or whichever is our expertise. The comments by Warren, for example, would be great feedback for the USFWS. Cheers all, Sean Hoban http://sites.google.com/site/hoban3/ Post-doc, Laboratorio di Genetica Delle Popolazioni Dipartimento di Biologia ed Evoluzione Università di Ferrara 44100 FERRARA, Italy
