Please do not "Open the ESA"…

Please do not "Open the ESA" to business. Business and endangered species have no efficiencies to increase or processes to streamline. It is clear that businesses quests for profits is the the reason for the decline of so many of our species who are slaughtered, driven from their homes, prevented from reaching breeding grounds or find their native habitat so disrupted that it is no longer usable by them.

The science is clear and our government needs to be well informed with accurate data and not with overriding political decisions. There needs to be mandatory habitat protection, timelines for reporting, and recovery strategies.

It should not be easier for industry and developers to destroy the habitats of "protected" endangered plant and animals.

If clarity and certainty are being sought - it is clear that our duty is to nature and ensuring the survival of entire species. The Endangered Species Act is to protect and restore - not to further facilitate the destruction and elimination...

Exemptions should not be allowed to forestry, mining, commercial development or others - not even in the most extreme situations. Recovery plans need to be completed and carried out in a timely manner and more data/research is needed on species, habitat and restoration strategies.

Please recognize our duties to future generations and better protect the rapidly declining species we still have left.