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Vol.
XXVIII, No. 4—July/December 2003
To stand an old saying
on its head, “A thousand pictures can be worth one word.”
For this edition of the Bulletin, that word is recovery.
The photographs on the front cover of this issue represent some of the
more than one thousand plant and animal species in the United States now
listed as threatened and endangered.The Endangered Species Act directs
federal agencies, working in partnership with state and local governments
and the private sector, not only to protect such imperiled species but
to return them to a secure status. Recovery is seldom an easy or straightforward
task, and the pace at which it can be accomplished depends on our society's
willingness to invest the necessary time, funds, and other resources |
