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Today species are vanishing on a grand scale. There are 1,116 imperiled species on the list, an additional 3,600 candidate species behind them. Some will die out waiting to be listed. These numbers are only a pale reflection of a wider problem. In tropical rain forests, loss of...
Mt. Graham is home to an endangered subspecies of squirrel--Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis--the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel. Conservationists say construction of the observatory puts the handful of Mt. Graham squirrels, the only ones of their kind on the planet, in danger of extinction.
`In Jeopardy of Extinction'
"Until the number of squirrels exceeds 450, the number the mountain can support, they will be in jeopardy of extinction," says Warshall. "The squirrels' population has fallen due to a bad cone crop. The extreme fluxuation in their food supply due to tree cutting may cause their population to crash...
Thus, Copeland argues, the extinction of the red squirrel is part of natural order. Building the Mt. Graham telescopes is simply humanity's way of helping nature along.