June 23, 2000

Why Exotic Species Are Not as Bad as We Fear

By MARK SAGOFF

Last year, President Clinton signed an executive order that committed the federal government to what Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman called "a unified, all-out battle" against the spread of alien species in the United States. Praising the order, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said, "There are a lot of global bioinvasive hitchhikers, and now is the time to take action. The costs to habitat and the economy are racing out of control."

There are good reasons

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