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Feb 2025
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The Wide Open

ROMAN MARS
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In the 1970s, the fight to save a tiny fish called the snail darter turned the Endangered Species Act from a minor bit of federal law into the most powerful and controversial piece of environmental legislation of the past 50 years. 
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