Excerpt from "Teaming With Wildlife" Initiative: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session Mr. Ashe. Yes. Again, I would hesitate to say that anyplace was not a concern for us, but, you know, in the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice, we have certainly over the last few years have had a major focus on the Everglades ecosystem, as has the whole Department of the Interior. And there has been a marked decline in the num bers and diversity of species there, and that is probably as good an example of any. The Pacific Northwest is another obvious example that jumps to mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.