Letter to the editor

Act preserves important natural resources
The recent op-ed by Adrian Moore (“My View: The danger of the Endangered Species Act”) included many unsupported assertions about vague threats to farmers but not a word about the escalating threats sea-level rise and development pose to Florida's unique species and the landscapes and habitats all Floridians depend on, including farmers.

Instead, Moore resorts to fear mongering peppered with factual distortions and misrepresentations about our nation's strongest wildlife protection law to inaccurately suggest that protecting our irreplaceable environment will somehow penalize Florida landowners.

The unsupported claim that taking steps to protect our most imperiled species will lead to “drastic land-use restrictions” simply has no basis in reality.