Trump Administration Moves to 'Neuter' America's Most Important Wildlife Law

Congressional Republicans also plan to turn the Endangered Species Act into a dead letter.

An endangered red wolf. (B. Bartel/USFWS)

For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped scores of species — from whooping cranes to red wolves to California condors — claw their way back from the edge of extinction. Its success has made it supremely popular with the American public — far more popular, for instance, than Congress. But now,…