Posted on 11/16/2015 10:13:52 AM PST by redreno
SUN VALLEY, Nev. (AP) — One of the first, actual on-the-ground disruptions caused by new U.S. efforts to protect the greater sage grouse isn't on a cattle ranch in Oregon or an oil field in Colorado. It's in the backyard of a residential neighborhood north of Reno, Nevada, where plans to acquire federal land to build a badly needed school are on hold because the government considers it sage grouse habitat.
On Tuesday in Reno, U.S. District Judge Miranda Du is scheduled to hear from opponents who are suing to block the new regulations. They say the rules will cause more economic harm than if Interior Secretary Sally Jewell had declared the bird threatened or endangered.
Two mining companies and eight Nevada counties claim the land planning amendments announced in conjunction with Jewell's listing decision in September will prevent construction of a $500 million wind project in Elko County and could "run ranchers and mining companies out of business."
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would the plural of “grouse” be “grice”?
I thought the federal government had important things on its mind.
Like global warming.
pack or covey, Two, a brace.
Just pay the bribe. Quit wasting time cause you’re gonna have to pay it anyway.
The plural form of grouse is grouse.
The feds have NO Constitutional right to be holding state land in the first place if it was not specifically PURCHASED from the state for the LIMITED PURPOSE of needed buildings in the interest of defense (Art I, Sec 17, U.S. Constitution).
Nevada: LEGALLY AND CONSTITUTIONALLY RECLAIM AND RE-COMMANDEER YOUR LAND away from the squatter feds who have no legal or constitutional right to be holding that land. The federal judges who claim otherwise are not basing their decisions on the Constitution and they can go to hell.
I will say from extensive personal knowledge and experience from decades of four wheeling across the state is that Sage Chickens are not in the slightest bit endangered, and the state of Nevada probably has too many of the damn things. They do not even taste good.
Ok. I’m sure fish and deer approve of this, but lice and mice object.
Where in the world is the “ecological niche” suitable for human beings?
Compared to a trip to the Gulag, I'm sure you will find them quite comfortable.
Sage Grouse have stingers?
Bad news for coyotes.
It’s Nevada so Dingy Harry’s meat-hooks are prolly involved somehow.
They’ve got talons like chickens too.
Why, they’re like feathered tanks.
“I don’t understand a word that you just said.”
Great movie.
Sun Valley is NOT the first to be effected by the sage grouse rules. I visit west central Wyoming every year and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been working overtime to defoliate thousands of acres of BLM land which has juniper trees sparsely scattered on it, land that is and has been prime habitat for elk, deer and other wildlife species, all to “improve” habitat for one species (sage grouse) at the peril of numerous others. Reminds me of the “Spotted Owl” mess which caused thousands of wood mills to close and as many jobs which now operate in Russia, never to return to our soils. Our government liberals at work.
Doesn’t Sun Valley vote Democrat?
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