Posted on 07/31/2017 2:45:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Tiny frogs and toads used to swarm over the Sierra Nevada. Now they’re considered endangered, and the government says they need to be protected.
California ranchers say those protections are hurting their ability to make a living. So another conflict over the Endangered Species Act is going to court.
The California Farm Bureau and two ranchers’ associations sued the U.S. Fish and Wildife Service on Monday, challenging a year-old decision to designate more than 1.8 million acres of rural California as “critical habitat” for three endangered species of frogs.
The critical habitat designation subjects farmers “to substantial regulatory burdens that impose, among other things, study costs, risk assessments, mitigation fees, operational changes, permit fees, and consulting expenses,” said the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. “In some cases, these burdens put the rancher’s livelihood at risk.”
At issue is the fate of the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog and mountain yellow-legged frog, named for the yellow on the undersides of their legs and abdomens. The third species is the Yosemite toad, named for the national park where it was first discovered.
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This will really work out great for Californians when Calexit happens...Those little frogs will help the economy lost by those nasty old ranchers...
Whats next the frogs get drivers license and can vote
Well, It’s hard to be GREEN!
No more CA FRIED Frog Legs.
Reminds me of a project I heard they did in Davis (I think in Davis, although town might not be right). Anyway there was a roadway that frogs were crossing and getting smashed on, so they decided to tear up the road and put in a culvert pipe to allow the frogs to cross the road safely.
Once in use, the birds quickly learned of the magic frog producing hole and posted up on it. Now hardly any frogs make it to the other side......
Frogs pay taxes?
The "professors" were practicing lawyers.
One of the lectures that I remember most was on how the endangered species act could be used, completely fraudulently, to overstate (in complete deceit) environmental impacts.
Forget environmental quality. The "greens" do not like private property.
Shut up and croak!
If California were to secede from the union and become an independent nation, it would quickly become the highest taxed nation in the world.
For environmental reasons, it would very quickly put all agricultural concerns out of business as well as destroy the logging & timber industry, commercial fishing, mining, drilling, refining, manufacturing, coal, gas & oil, power generation (of reliable industrial capacity), and most construction (other than high speed rail to nowhere).
They’d open their borders and treasury (welfare) to all comers. They’d be totally opposed to war and would have no military or defense department. Their police would not be armed and would not be allowed to enforce the law anyway.
They’d raise the minimum wage to $30, but would pay all citizens a guaranteed wage anyway, whether they work or not.
They’d institute single payer healthcare and clampdown on how much doctors could make (and therefore most doctors worth their salt will flee). Universal healthcare will cover everyone 100% for everything, but unfortunately, there will be precious few providers of medical services.
Taxes on the wealthy will become confiscatory to pay for all the above, so most of the wealthy will flee (even the Hollywood wealthy).
It will quickly become impossible for corporations to make a profit, so capital will dry up and corporations will shutter their doors and flee.
No wealth, no capital, no industry, no jobs. Only illegal aliens, queers, trannies and would be welfare recipients left.
And the treasury will soon dry up, so even the welfare recipients will flee.
Last one out, please blow out the candles.
Assuming that the California government would permit people to freely leave. There might be an exit tax. Or the People's Republic of California might erect the Orange Curtain with barbed wire and watchtowers to keep people in.
Yup. And then the gulags and slave labor camps to do the necessary things, like providing for the top dogs.
Fried frog legs, yum!
California the granola state. Was isn’t fruits or nuts is flakes.
an exit tax
Google the Wildlands Project. You'll quickly learn how much they hate private property and how they and the U.N. are working behind the scenes to try to eliminate it.
They used tis excuse to shut down Little Rock Dam, Creek and All the Mountains East of Angeles Forest Highway. My Back yard at my ranch is Angeles Forest, we still ride our Dirt Bikes there, because well, it is my backyard, but it is illegal because of this FROG!
You live over by Little Rock Dam? Used to be my stompen grounds in the early 60’s.
Beautiful area of the high desert, loved it as a young man, still remember picking peaches around Little Rock and Pearblossom as a kid.
25 cents a flat, good money back then.
Used to hunt quail up along Mt. Emma road, don’t suppose you can do that anymore?
My Brother still lives up there in Juniper Hills, right by the Devils Punch Bowl.
I only get down to So. Cal. once a year nowdays, to see my Brother and a few friends, do a little bit of bird hunting in October.
Beautiful area, don’t let the stupid progressives drive you out.
I clicked on this deceptive headline that enraged me!!! I am agsinst giving Nearly 2 million California acres to Frenchmen!!!!!
then I read the article......now turning bright red!!!!
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