From: Mic
“The memo was released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit environmental protection group that has repeatedly butted heads with the Trump administration over its lack of commitment to protecting wildlife and biodiversity. “This across-the-board abandonment of federal fish and wildlife safeguards is rooted in an ideological stance unsupported by any factual analysis,” the organization’s executive director, Jeff Ruch, said in a statement. “Federal parks, preserves and refuges have a mission to protect biodiversity and should not be reduced to game farms.””