From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2000:

North American people are better
buffered against calamities associated with
global warming than Asians and Africans––
but reminders were abundant during the summer
that technological advances helping
humans to keep water, food, and fuel flowing
where needed are not necessarily able to
save animals, even when the effort is made.
On July 28, for instance, after
nearly nine months of legal maneuvering, a
tentative agreement was announced among
the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, ranchers holding water
leases, Defenders of Wildlife, Forest
Guardians, and the Middle Rio Grande
Conservancy District over the allocation of
Rio Grande water needed by both corn and
alfalfa growers and the endangered Rio
Grande silvery minnow and Southwest willow
flycatcher (a small bird).

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