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<br />" <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />~".-' , <br /> <br />.,.- <br /> <br />c. =.:-:, - I .. --; J :::> <br />,~ r. ~r~~I~~ :- .,..",., '..c- <br />- ~- ~w~P:f!~ - <br />ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL <br />. <br /> <br />~Otb Year, No. 132,. 84 Pages In , Secdona,' <br /> <br />Saturday Morning, May 12. t.m'. Copyright c i990, Jcumal PubllshiDg Co. <br /> <br />Dally 35iI . Sunday $1 * *** <br /> <br />..." <br /> <br />Lujan Sax~~~p~~pg~r~d~peci~s~a.W'roo Tough' <br /> <br />. ,.,-.-. . . . <-- ~ -- ~ <br /> <br />By Pa.u1 R. Wieck <br /> <br />OF THE JOURNAl'S WASHINGTON BUREAU <br /> <br />WASHINGTON - Interior Secre- <br />tary Manuel Lujan Jr. has1anded in <br />bot water with environmentalists <br />again - tbis time for suggesting the <br />Endangered Species Act is "just too: <br />tOugh." . _ . <br />Lujan added that be thinks Con- <br />gress should reconsider whether <br />every subspecies should be pro- <br />tected and whether the protection <br />should extend to every habitat of <br />the species. <br /> <br />-_._~.",.... ._- .,- ,.- <br /> <br />Service that the $580 million <br />Animas-LaPlata project for south- <br />western Colorado be halted because <br />th!3 Colorado squawfish is en- <br />dangered in the San Juan River. The . <br />Fish and Wildlife 'Service said the <br />project would deplete water in the <br />San Juan River Basin, harming the <br />squawfisb. <br /> <br />Lujan also faces the possibility <br />that the Fish and Wildlite Service <br />will list the razorback sucker as an <br /> <br />Luj~'s" comments .,reflect his.: thinks the, Congress' should' take -:.who said,'Luju" "show. a'"bid of point out President Bush "bas no <br />growing frustra.:.another .,look at it to- _determine: sensitivity to policies to: protect policy initiative along those lines. <br />tion, with the way whether it's beina implemented as . endanaered species.". Secretary Lujan was not voicing the <br />the Endangered intended," Goldstein said. '._ Lujan drew the criticism after policies of the administration." <br />Species AcUs en- But environmentalists said Lu- tellina a Denver Post: reporter Con_c But Go14stein said Lujan brought <br />forced. accord- jan's comments show.his insensitiv- gress should take a new look at the the issue "to a public debate." <br />ing to Steve ity and short-sightedness: Endangered Species Act. The language of the act covers <br />Goldstein, the "The secretary is taking a very He made the comments while subspecies and the entire habitat of <br />secretary's chief sbort.silhted view of a law he's attending a convention of the Na~ each species, according to Megan <br />press . charged with enforcing," said Lori tional Park - Association at Mesa Duram:, a Fish and Wildlife Service <br />spokesman. Potter, an attorney in the Sierra Verde National Park in Colorado. press officer. <br />"The secretary Club's Legal Defense Office in His suggestion that Congress aet Lujan currently faces three con- <br />was not only ex- Denver drew no support Friday. < . troversies involving e'ndangered <br />pressing his frustration with the She ~as backed up by' Mike At the White House, deputy press species, including a preliminary <br />Endangered Species Act but he also Francis of the Wilderness Society secretary Steve Hart was careful to ruJ.ing by the Fish and Wildlife <br /> <br /> <br />Lu(an <br /> <br />MQRE: See L.UJAN on PAGE fJ.3 <br />