Thank you for posting this.
It's a bad law, made possible by a bad treaty that keeps it from being out-right unconstitutional and both the bad law and the bad treaty should be repealed by Senators based on the oath they take as each is sworn in as a Senator to protect and defend our constitution!!!
The ridiculous ESA is being used in FL to prevent growth in the boating industry by declairing any "water area" a manatee zone even if manatees never go there.
Ah yes, Lincoln Chafee. His idea of open range is a public croquet lawn.
A property rights controversy is when you sublease a berth from your college chum and his third wife Muffy and they still want to retain the membership in the Marina's Sunday brunch club which you simply MUST be seen at.
Enviornmentalism is out of control. The real environmentalists are the hunters, the sportsman, and businesses, not the dirt-god worshipping freaks whose goal is to return civilization to that of prehistoric times.
The federal and State Endangered Species Acts have destroyed our local timber, mining and farming economies. Week before last, the Klamath National Forest gave a presentation to the Board of Supervisors where they did not even list timber harvest as a use of the National Forest. The legislation creating the Forests Reserves was intended for the purposes of a supply of wood products and protection of water sources for cities. They were NOT created for recreation, biodiversity, preservation or a quality "forest experience."
Suction dredge mining in our area has been virtually extinguished - the local Karuk tribe sued under the Dept, of Fish and Game under CESA to close it down.
Irrigated farming and ranching is rqeuired to come under an incidental take permit for endangered coho - exthorting an agreement to forgoe use of property rights by making uses that harass, harm, injure, kill or modify habitat a crime under the Act. They have made property usage revocable conditioned privilege rather than a right that can be freely exercised as long as it does not substantially harm the general public health and safety.
Now the State Water Resources Control Board is cutting another swath of property rights by claiming pre-1914 adjudicated water use rights can be taken without compensation for flows for coho and other cold water fish under the recent Robie decision.
Just last week, the North Coast water Quality Control Board gave us a presentation on its plan to further condition land use for its hydrologic impact on groundwater recharge, flooding, riparian areas and wetlands. This could pretty much replace local land use regulatory authorities by moving them under this appointed Board.
The public is not aware of the rights and freedoms we are losing hand over fist through environmental regulation such as FESA.
BTTT