A brilliant Enron loving right wing republican idea to be sure. Let's take this little brainf@rt to it's logical conclusion, as the intent seems to be to place the burden of endangered species recovery on public properties. OK, so public roads comply with ESA, public irrigation and power systems, public water supplies, public ports and navigation channels and projects, public bridges and ferry systems, public forests and rangeland, public office buildings and capital campuses, public education facilities, and every inch of public bedlands and waters below the ordinary high water line. And these places will have to recover all the endangered species, as the rest of the privately and militarily held parts of the country won't. So take out all the dams and irrigation projects, take out all public transportation facilities, convert ports and navigation channels back to wetlands, take out the jetties, take all dikes and armoring off of rivers, take all the cows off public range land and take all the loggers out of national forests. Teach our children in private schools and universities as all public facilities will be growing trees. Ditto our legislature and government workers - they can rent private office space with your tax dollars. Yeah, now those endangered species will come back with a vengance, as we will have no transportation, power, water, or public services, ergo, no economy and no people. Yeah man, ram this one through that republican house and senate, the shrub will sign it