To the editor:

Tuesday, Jan. 24, the Journal-World carried an Associated Press article datelined Washington, headlined, “U.S. Army Corps to spend $54 million on Missouri River fish, bird habitats.”

What a boondoggle! With this country up to its ears in debt, how dare Congress find $54 million to spend to build sandbars for least terns and piping plovers and to dig dikes along the river in four states to create shallow water habitat for the pallid sturgeon.

They call them endangered species. I, for one, do not long for dinosaurs to return or for flocks of passenger pigeons to invade my shade trees, and can you imagine the traffic backed up for miles on Interstate 70 while herds of thousands of buffalo cross the road?

Please stop wasting that kind of money on creatures most people have never heard of and will never see.