More than a $1 billion difference separates the cost estimates in the Fish and Wildlife Service’s latest plans for recovering two vulnerable species.
In a newly finalized plan for an endangered cave-dwelling Missouri fish called the grotto sculpin, the FWS estimates that recovery will cost about $4 million.
That’s a pittance, compared to the $1.4 billion estimated price tag listed in a final recovery plan for the threatened Oregon spotted frog made public Wednesday.
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“Recovering species can be time-consuming and expensive, as it often entails undoing centuries of impacts that have led to their current imperiled state,” the FWS stated in the spotted frog recovery plan.
