Who woulda guessed that Nevada had run out of vast empty deserts for these creatures to live?
$1million/yr govt funded facility:
1 posted on
08/27/2013 5:30:07 PM PDT by
kevcol
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2 posted on
08/27/2013 5:32:00 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: kevcol
3 posted on
08/27/2013 5:32:07 PM PDT by
patriot08
(NATIVE TEXAN (girl type)
To: kevcol
Sounds like the abortion argument.
“If we can’t keep them, they must be killed.”
4 posted on
08/27/2013 5:33:22 PM PDT by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: kevcol
That’s a lot of tortoise soup .... I guess Harry Reid can have a few of his fellow lawyers and crony capitalists over for supper.
5 posted on
08/27/2013 5:33:49 PM PDT by
RetiredTexasVet
(Progressives are never accountable for "unintended consequences" .... just for causing most)
To: kevcol
Why euthanize them — start turning them loose — and then go find a real job.
To: kevcol
For those unaware (most) the BLM claims that there is a disease spread by contact with the DTs. I once made a ranger blow a gasket asking him who these turtle touchers that searched endlessly running from one RARE (right) tortoise to another touching them inappropriately and giving them turtle herpes.
He was not amused. I laughed a lot. Many of us off roaders did.
THAT is why this favility exists. No joke.
To: kevcol
8 posted on
08/27/2013 5:37:12 PM PDT by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: kevcol
The facility was created in 1990 when the overdevelopmentnamely McMansions, solar plants, and strip mallsof the turtles' native habitats caused the critters to be put on the endangered species list.
And so their answer is to kill them? WTF?
10 posted on
08/27/2013 5:38:39 PM PDT by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: kevcol
What a wonderful parable about the welfare state.
Trust us, we'll take care of you.
close its doors and euthanize about half of its 1,400 tortoise residents, reports the Associated Press.
11 posted on
08/27/2013 5:39:05 PM PDT by
DManA
To: kevcol
They are desert tortoises, right? They can survive in the desert, right? Oh wait - I guess they are now dependent on gov’t handouts and can’t survive on their own anymore. Wonder how many of them are registered rats and voted for Dingy Harry?.
13 posted on
08/27/2013 5:39:46 PM PDT by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: kevcol
Tortoises live in small, well-defined ranges. Remove them from that range and release them somewhere else and they will spend the rest of their lives trying to find their way back to their home range. Letting these poor critters go is probably a death sentence, too.
14 posted on
08/27/2013 5:39:54 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: kevcol
” mostly fueled by “raking in funds from fees imposed on real estate developers who chose to build on the tortoises’ habitats,”
So the solar farms are gone? Since these government approved rapists of the land, the solar and wind farms are still using the tortoises habitat let them pay for the facility. I find it incredible that the Eco Nazis go rabid over average Americans using the desert for recreation but it’s OK for “GREEN” businesses to rape the land and displace or destroy the wildlife.
18 posted on
08/27/2013 5:44:17 PM PDT by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: kevcol
21 posted on
08/27/2013 5:48:45 PM PDT by
opentalk
To: kevcol
Death Panels for Tortises
You're next, America.
26 posted on
08/27/2013 5:58:28 PM PDT by
IncPen
(When you start talking about what we 'should' have, you've made the case for the Second Amendment)
To: kevcol
So there is NOWHERE in the vast unpopulated west to turn them loose?
27 posted on
08/27/2013 6:00:29 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the people. T Jefferson)
To: kevcol
Start killing the Ravens in the desert and the Desert Tortoise might stand a chance.
As it is now, the damnable Migratory Species Act protects the black bastards and they’re responsible for the wholesale slaughter of the tortoises in my neck of the woods.
Envirowhacko created conundrums...stupid.
28 posted on
08/27/2013 6:02:01 PM PDT by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: kevcol
Have these fantabulous government workers even made an attempt to find them homes or contacted tortoise rescues?
Oh, wait .... that would require effort.
To: kevcol
Florida Gopher Tortoise.
40 posted on
08/27/2013 6:35:48 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: kevcol
The tortoises have been kept in captivity for so long they're too confused to be released into the wild
44 posted on
08/27/2013 7:08:34 PM PDT by
lonevoice
(Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
To: kevcol
Back in the day, desert Turtles were pets of sorts. We had one “Touche” at our So Cal. Home in the mid to late 60’s. These suckers slow as they were could dig there way to freedom in no time, as did ours.
45 posted on
08/27/2013 7:08:49 PM PDT by
DAC21
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