Posted on 12/06/2018 1:01:49 PM PST by reaganaut1
Curley: I don’t see any grouse.
Moe: [kicks Curley] See any now?
Curley: No.
Moe: [kicks Curley again] See any now?
Curley: No.
Moe: [hits Curley on the top of the head]
Curley: Ah, look at the grouse!
Let me guess: a rogue Fedjudge will strike it down and Trump will continue his uninterrupted streak of meekly capitulating to these usurpers. But he will excite EverTrump Freepers with a pithy Tweet!
Schweet!
I love Trump.
Basically stupid wild chickens
Environmentalists never did bother to make a case for why oil drilling would adversely affect the sage grouse.
Having grown up right next door to an oil refinery and “chicken farms” for oil storage- what is surely more developed than an oil drilling area- I found that to get the best photographs of wildlife, especially birds, for reference material, all one need do is go to the wetlands and grasslands around the refinery, as it acted as a perfect wildlife refuge. There were king rails and sora rails, coots, great blue herons, geese and ducks of very description, kestrels and hawks and owls, fox sparrows and other songbirds, kingfishers, a number of tortoises and turtles, snakes, muskrat, beaver, mink, foxes, deer... in greater abundance than there were in regional parks.
So how would drilling for oil harm a sage grouse?
..and nighthawks. Oh, it was awesome watching the nighthawks in breeding season. They loved the flat roofs of manmade structures to nest on, so they were everywhere.
Indeed!
Back in the days when I resided in Idaho we would shoot those things off a branch w/ a .22 while camping & hunting.. cooked up real good with ramen noodles....
Dumb birds too - we could walk within 10 feet of them.
nice.
We are doing all this, but how about starting to build nuclear plants? That is the solution for the future and we are ignoring it. Look at the percentage of power from nuclear plants in places like France. Other european countries are doing the same and we sit here still listening to people like Jane Fonda who doesn’t have a clue, really, about nuclear power. Using caution, it is very safe and productive without creating Carbon Dioxide. Yet we are being silly about it, listening to people who have no background in nuclear power generation.
Haha - my 82yo mother is an avid bird watcher and spends weekdays sneaking past security guards at local office park to check out the birds, especially birds of prey, who populate the corporate park sink hole.
And 20 years from now, they will discover that the grouse are still thriving in the areas that are no longer protected....
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