Get Credits for "Stopover Habitats"

President Bush and a little screech owl yesterday helped explain a program to aid populations of migrating birds..."threatened by increasing development along their flyover routes."

The President said "his administration would award private landowners "credits" they could sell, mainly to federal agencies, to encourage [the landowners] to set aside "stopover habitats" for more than 800 species of migratory birds." (AP)