... the Great American Chicken evidently still exists in significant numbers.
Posted on 02/10/2013 8:29:43 AM PST by Kaslin
When human society puts into positions of immense power individuals that envision elimination of tens of millions of other humans to save the earth, then humans are the ones that are the endangered species.
First, the Lesser Prairie Chicken is not your Colonel Sanders variety of chicken.
Second, this situation just drips with irony that is completely missing from this article. The LPC nests in the open in the prairie grasses which are actually on the increase as family farms disappear across the heartland. But, the LPC is a squirrely little bird and the oddest of things can disrupt their nesting patterns. It turns out that the greatest threat to the LPC is the wind turbine. They just don’t like the things and won’t nest anywhere near them. Bye bye prairie chicken as well as large numbers of raptors who are knocked senseless running into spinning turbine blades.
The enviro wackos are killing all these wild critters. Members of Congress are on the side of the enviro wackos on this one. Their constituents are making big bucks leasing prairie lands to wind turbine farms, so the fact that both the ranchers and the politicians are Republicans gets conveniently forgotten since money is involved.
Repeal the ESA!!!
The “Lesser” Prairie Chicken? Don’t you listen to the haters! You’re not lesser! You are special! We love you just the way you are!
I read last week that the anti-nuke people and the tree huggers are trying to stop construction of a third nuclear plant at the Enrico Fermi nuclear facility on the shore of Lake Erie in Newport, MI (south of Detroit).
They claim it will destroy the habitat of the locally threatened fox snake.
I think the proper terminology is "height challenged prairie chicken" or "luncheon size prairie chicken".
At the risk of being mean, am I the only one who finds humor in hearings being held in a hanger in Roswell, New Mexico? Concerning a species of poultry that is paranoid about where it nests and barely competes with a cornish game hen as a decent meal...
Thanks for the insight. We can be assured that the NYT will never divulge this little tidbit.
Just as a theory, the thumping of the rotors might imitate the drumming of the males, which would interfere with their mating rituals.
“Bureaucrats are becoming an invasive species in America’s heartland.” Thank you, Congressman Huelskamp!
One factor not covered in this story: much of the proposed restricted range in Kansas & Oklahoma covers (and it’s no coincidence) the Mississippi oil formation that we finally have the technology to drill. We can’t have any wealth originating in these red states, now can we?
All of this poses a big dilemma for the Left who have honed the ESA into a very sharp blade to slice their enemies to pieces and stop any development that they don’t like. They haven’t really made up their minds on wind turbines. The green energy argument runs up against the affront to their eyes when they venture out from their loft apartments to commune with nature. Now it turns out that birds and wind turbines don’t get along very well. What to do, what to do?
I personally don’t like wind turbines and find them much more offensive than an oil well or a fracking site. But let a migratory bird come to grief in your oil containment pond and you will suffer financial ruin and perhaps jail. Meanwhile wind turbines are immune from such harrassment and continue to suck up taxpayer dollars to subsidize a very inefficient energy production scheme.
Ditto! If species are too stupid to learn how to adapt to changing conditions, they deserve to go extinct.
It’s terrible that there are lesser Chickens.
We must immediately implement forced integration, mandatory busing, and a $10000 per chick head start pogrom to catch them up.
“More Federal Mommy”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987107/posts
There's a balance in here somewhere. Jobs and economic development are certainly important. But if we don't conserve the species we have, our children and grandchildren will only be able to see pictures of them in the history books.
Like the dodo. And like the passenger pigeon, which once thundered across American skies in great flocks but which perished forever when Martha died in 1914.
They are actually quite tasty, but the process is incredibly difficult and requires a highly-unlikely confluence of luck and skill.
This is an effort to control land use, period. That bird doesn't need any protection from humans.
It might need protection from coyotes, wolves, eagles, hawks and somesuch animals (themselves "protected"), but we humans couldn't inflict any damage on that thing's survival prospects, even if we wanted to.
For every human that walks this earth, there are 2.71 chickens. Does that mean humans are endangered too?
“According to the UN Environment Programme, the Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction of life. Scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours.”
And it seems that during expeditions to find new species, they are quite successful.
It’s a continuing process, that usually goes on sight unseen,until someone wants to make a political stand.
Oh your post made me laugh!
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