Letters 2-23-14  FWS has hidden agenda in delisting io  A hidden
agenda exists in the Fish and Wildlife Service’s desire to
delist the io.  By its own words, FWS indicates the truth of the
io being listed. FWS, in 1967 when the io was listed as
endangered, says they presumed the io to occupy only undisturbed
native habitat and numbered in the low hundreds. Now FWS knows
io occur in various native and non-native forests, pastures, and
ag lands. Clearly, one wonders had FWS done their due diligence
prior to listing the io, there would not have been a reason to
list it 47 years ago. FWS also claims the io to be migratory.
How can a migratory bird inhabit only native forests which are
said to be decimated by all environmentalists? By nature will it
not migrate? These are two examples of how the FWS says what
they have to, to get what they want.  In 1992, FWS convinced
Congress to condemn 5,300 acres of a Kona Hawaiian family’s land
to save the alala, on the endangered species list, from going
extinct because of t