Posted on 02/04/2013 5:30:19 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the “mountain devil,” could soon join the list of species threatened by climate change —a dubious distinction putting it in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals the government says will lose crucial habitat as temperatures rise.
Federal wildlife officials Friday proposed Endangered Species Act protections for the wolverine in the Lower 48 states. That’s a step twice denied under the Bush administration, then delayed in 2010 when the Obama administration said other imperiled species had priority.
It likely means an end to trapping the animals for their fur outside Alaska.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.washingtonpost.com ...
They've almost completely disappeared from South Texas...
What morons. The climate is cooling. In ten years these same idiots will be wishing the planet was warming.
If the wolverine finds his habitat too warm, he will extend his range north where it is cooler.
When they get this far south they turn into badgers.
Good. I hate wolverines.
I believe this article to be what is commonly known as a “CROCK”. I’ll leave it right there.
Next will be Florida's snow-bird population.
The natural range of the wolverine is entirely North of the Canada/USA border ~ one was seen in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula like 90 years ago ~
reckun we’re gonna need a fleeet of shaved ice aircraft, great for Obama photo ops, maybe ‘green’ blimps instead, don’t want to spoil the environment while we save it..
I think I saw a bunch of yours heading north here thru Kansas in a beat up Chevy.
Wolverines are making a comeback in the state of Washington.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020260612_wolverinereturnxml.html
Not true. The wolverine inhabits the Taiga forests. They are native in the Rockies, and are common in WA,ID,WY, and MT (where I am). I would be surprised if they are not also in CO and UT, though maybe not further south than that.
The government is now officially lying about actual daily temperatures. Since the National Weather Service changed their weather page, which I have used for years, (it got much worse visually), their daily predictions for temps in my area are off by 15 to 25 degress - HIGHER than the real acheived temps.
THey’re lying pieces of crap.
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