Karen Campbell

I strongly oppose this bill. At a time when wildlife populations are already declining due to climate change, pollution, and habitat loss, weakening protections is reckless and unnecessary. Wildlife are at peril and they are not a priority for the current federal government. Funds to research wildlife have been cut drastically. It is hard to overstate how lacking our information about wildlife is. It is not a time to put onerous, unrealistic and expensive requirements on agencies to prove there is wildlife present who need to be protected. With what humans are doing to wildlife populations the default assumption could easily be wildlife is in peril, because a big proportion of the time, they are! Do not support anything that make it more difficult to protect endangered and threatened (T&E) species in NH. Do not impose unrealistic and expensive requirements to prove that threatened and endangered species are present on property under consideration for development. Do not make it easier to disturb, fragment, or destroy habitat that threatened and endangered species depend on to survive. Do not support this bill. We need more species on this planet than just humans. Without other species this will be a very lonely and unhealthy place.