The federal government enforces the Endangered Species Act far differently when "They" are the ones doing the damage.
One only needs to look at how they enforced the protection of the Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet.
Enforcement was swift and far reaching, there were no exceptions, hundreds of thousands of hard working PNW families were displaced.
When the feds are the ones doing the killing we see deception, denial, junk science, billions wasted on status quo techno fixes, and law makers that won't do their jobs.