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We're back with the Sunday story and we're talking to Nick Mott of Montana Public Radio about his reporting on the Endangered Species Act. Nick, your series digs into some pretty key moments in the history around the Endangered Species Act. But the place that you start is at the very beginning with how the act actually became law. Let's start there.
We're back with the Sunday story and we're talking to Nick Mott of Montana Public Radio about his reporting on the Endangered Species Act. Nick, your series digs into some pretty key moments in the history around the Endangered Species Act. But the place that you start is at the very beginning with how the act actually became law. Let's start there.
We're back with the Sunday story and we're talking to Nick Mott of Montana Public Radio about his reporting on the Endangered Species Act. Nick, your series digs into some pretty key moments in the history around the Endangered Species Act. But the place that you start is at the very beginning with how the act actually became law. Let's start there.
You're listening to the Sunday Story. Montana Public Radio's Nick Mott is with us talking about his podcast, The Wide Open. So we just heard Buff Bolin describing the origin of the Endangered Species Act. And Nick, you pointed out that it was a Republican who signed it into law, President Richard Nixon, and that at the time it had broad support from both sides of the aisle.
You're listening to the Sunday Story. Montana Public Radio's Nick Mott is with us talking about his podcast, The Wide Open. So we just heard Buff Bolin describing the origin of the Endangered Species Act. And Nick, you pointed out that it was a Republican who signed it into law, President Richard Nixon, and that at the time it had broad support from both sides of the aisle.
You're listening to the Sunday Story. Montana Public Radio's Nick Mott is with us talking about his podcast, The Wide Open. So we just heard Buff Bolin describing the origin of the Endangered Species Act. And Nick, you pointed out that it was a Republican who signed it into law, President Richard Nixon, and that at the time it had broad support from both sides of the aisle.
OK, so tell us about this little fish. So this isn't like a fish you fry up and eat, I don't think.
OK, so tell us about this little fish. So this isn't like a fish you fry up and eat, I don't think.
OK, so tell us about this little fish. So this isn't like a fish you fry up and eat, I don't think.
So the environmentalists, they won that battle, right? Yeah.
So the environmentalists, they won that battle, right? Yeah.
So the environmentalists, they won that battle, right? Yeah.
It sounds like the snail darter laid out a blueprint, which is to try to block projects or development by finding a species that is endangered and saying, you can't build this pipeline here or you can't build this housing development here or what have you.
It sounds like the snail darter laid out a blueprint, which is to try to block projects or development by finding a species that is endangered and saying, you can't build this pipeline here or you can't build this housing development here or what have you.
It sounds like the snail darter laid out a blueprint, which is to try to block projects or development by finding a species that is endangered and saying, you can't build this pipeline here or you can't build this housing development here or what have you.
Well, it does seem like, you know, when the Endangered Species Act was put into place, there was a vision for kind of probably, as you said, protecting these iconic animals. But now it does protect a very, you know, any endangered species. And so like, how do we make sense of that?
Well, it does seem like, you know, when the Endangered Species Act was put into place, there was a vision for kind of probably, as you said, protecting these iconic animals. But now it does protect a very, you know, any endangered species. And so like, how do we make sense of that?