Archaelogy and Endangered Species

As some of you know I read archaeological news sites daily. I enjoy many different branches and periods of history. For the second time in several months there has been an archaeological news story about the impact of oil and gas development and its potential to damage some historical sites (ancient native). The first was specific to natural gas fracking, and while the linked article is more generic http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2158457.shtml?cat=500, I expect fracking is part of the concern as well. In addition, we have all probably seen this debate over some lizard being put on the endangered species list and how that will impact oil and gas production around Midland Texas. I have neither the time nor energy to try and lay out my reasoning as to why I believe these efforts are underhanded liberal attempts at keeping this country from energy independence and lower cost. The current administration seems hell bent on hurting the southern states and hurting the oil and gas industries. However, to use such flimsy excuses as the possible damage to every place some group of ancient American dwellers decided to stop for awhile or bury a few body's is so pathetic that I don't feel compelled to defend my above beliefs. It is clear at this point that mankind's entry into this part of the world was far later than that of Africa and the Middle East. There is little more than minor cultural information that can be determined from these sites. Compared to the evolutionary, technological, in some cases battle field history, and human religion development value of finds in the old world, these American sites just can't measure up in historical value. They can't even measure up with the South American sites of the peoples such as the Aztecs, Mayan's, etc... When your dealing with people that barely managed to build a mud hut, confirming a hundred times what they ate and where they crapped is not valuable information. And the sanctity of 5 or 10 thousand year old burials is just too stupid and useless to ponder. Additionally, worrying over some lizard that is supposedly so fragile that it is incapable at surviving in an area as open and generally uninhabited as areas around Midland Texas due to relatively minor incursions on the land for drilling or fracking is ludicrous. How in the world do all the creatures survive around an area like Houston if man's incursions are so terrible. I watch hawks nesting in the medical center and flying near the highway every day. I regularly see an osprey fly along the bayou here in one of the densest parts of the city, and living just a dozen miles out of the city, I have many critters and many specie of birds around the house. If these lizards can't handle the little disturbance some energy development will bring, then they aren't long for this world anyway when discussing small spans of time like 1,000 years, give or take. These excuses for not developing energy in our own country are no different than the games the liberals have been using to keep us from drilling off-shore, in Alaska, etc... Whatever their reason for their hatred, they need to come up with better excuses then this garbage.