A final rule modernizing the Endangered Species Act is getting praise from agricultural groups. Ethan Lane with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association tells Brownfield the new rule deals with key issues impacting producers, like the ability to designate critical habitat without the species on the property. “This rulemaking rolled that back and actually creates a higher bar that Fish and Wildlife must meet in order to put a critical habitat designation either on somebody’s private property or on their public grazing lease.”
without the species on the property.
