This ‘Endangered Species’ Story Was Government-Sponsored Fake News

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This ‘Endangered Species’ Story Was Government-Sponsored Fake News

Rob Gordon / August 28, 2017 / comments


Leave it to the federal government to make a costly mistake, obscure it for decades at taxpayer expense, and then try to claim it was a success.

In 2016, Johnston’s frankenia—a wiry, blue-green, roughly 1 to 2-foot-tall shrub with tiny oblong leaves—was taken off the endangered species list. The Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered species database reports the happy plant was “delisted” because it had recovered.

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