Endangered Species

The Oregon northern woodman has been declared an endangered species.When Iran gets The Bomb, don't blame the Rosenbergs or Klaus Fuchs, but more contemporary sellers.Brave old George went to speak at Dunbar High School, but not until after they sent the students home.

Charleston, South Carolina. -- In her small but richly instructive little volume, ''A Southern Belle Primer,'' just published by Doubleday, Maryln Schwartz has performed a notable service. She writes as a social anthropologist examining an endangered species. Her observations are acute; for the most part they merit scholarly acclaim.2 James J. Kilpatrick is a syndicated columnist.

Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly shooting at an endangered California condor in the Los Padres National Forest in July 1992.Cesario Quinteros Campos, 32, of the Los Angeles-area city of Long Beach, was arrested at his home yesterday by U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents. Ricardo Contreras Tirado, 23, also of Long Beach, remained at large.Both men were charged with shooting at an endangered species, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and $50,000 fine.

THE SLOW-footed, sleepy, portly Delmarva fox squirrel is the subject of a controversial program of the Endangered Species Act that a Queen Anne's County developer hopes to use to build homes along the banks of Winchester Creek.A sighting of the rare squirrel at the planned Homeport development near Grasonville prompted the federal government to consider the project's impact on the protected species. An environmental lawsuit then prodded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose a "Habitat Conservation Plan" for the rodent on the 57-acre farm.

THE WOLF, after making remarkable recoveries in the Great Lakes region and the Rocky Mountains and on the verge of leaving the federal endangered species list, is threatened in Yellowstone National Park by old foes -- ranchers and farmers.While park visitors and rangers have cheered the restoration of wolves to Yellowstone, the American Farm Bureau Federation says the 1995 experiment violates the Endangered Species Act.It has gained support from a federal judge who has ordered removal of the "nonessential" gray wolves.

If Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest is looking thinner these days, it might be because the moderate Republican congressman is being squeezed on both sides in the debate over the Endangered Species Act. On one side, environmental activists demand that he oppose changes in the 22-year-old law. On the other side, right-wing legislators want his help in dismantling the act.Mr. Gilchrest, whose district straddles Chesapeake Bay to include a swath of central Anne Arundel County, would like to take the middle road.

WASHINGTON - Commercial fishing advocates from Louisiana to Rhode Island joined Maryland in objecting to the proposed listing of the Eastern oyster as an endangered species, saying it's unnecessary and would kill the troubled industry. "We believe this petition is a misuse of the Endangered Species Act," said S. Lake Cowart Jr., vice president of the Cowart Seafood Corp. of Virginia. "The Eastern oyster is not in danger of extinction; healthy populations exist in the Gulf Coast states and the north Atlantic, which makes up the majority of its range."

If Gov. William Donald Schaefer has his way, Marylanders will have a choice of worthy causes to support financially when they file their taxes each April 15. That is, if there's any money left over after paying federal, state and local income taxes.Since Maryland's existing tax checkoff for endangered species and the Chesapeake Bay has been a smashing success, raising $3.1 million in three years, the governor wants to expand this voluntary checkoff so taxpayers have three other choices: to help children's programs, to aid crime victims and to assist the arts.

A federal fisheries agency announced yesterday that it is seeking public comments on a recent proposal to list Maryland's native oyster as an endangered species. NOAA Fisheries Service said it expects to decide by early next year whether the Eastern oyster, which once thrived in the Chesapeake Bay but has been ravaged by disease and over-harvesting, needs to be protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. The agency is investigating the matter in response to a petition in January from Crownsville environmental consultant Dieter Busch, who worries that Maryland's plans to introduce an Asian oyster into the bay could further harm dwindling native oyster populations.

Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli,87, the Hollywood producer whose 17 James Bond movies matched suave 007 with beautiful women, diabolical villains and gee-whiz gadgets for three decades, died Thursday at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home. He underwent heart bypass surgery a year ago. The James Bond movies, inspired by the Ian Fleming novels about the urbane British spy, are the most successful, longest-running film series ever.Mr. Broccoli successfully kept the entertaining packages of adventure, sex, posh backgrounds, gadgetry and wit coming even though the actors playing Bond changed and the supply of Fleming novels was exhausted.