Hello, what part of offsite mitigation do you not understand?
You needn't be insulting to make your point. I oversimplified without changing the main point. Sue me.
What I see, is the same government incompetence and piss poor planning that always occurs when the desk jockeys think they have the upper hand.
I agree with that and just about everything else 100%.
Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle.
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/04/12/feds-want-relocate-desert-tortoise-chinese-solar-farm-sponsored-harry-reid/#ioWYV6dZShsy4QOO.99
This is bureaucratese for Environmentalists have threatened to sue us (BLM) if we don't get the cattle off. The BLM is perfectly happy to leave the cattle on and collect both grazing fees and mitigation fees for the same acreage, it's a two-fer!
But the enviro's are also big Obama and Reid donors and they've wanted ranchers off of western lands since the 70's. They saw the elections of first Clinton and then Obama as opportunities to push their agenda and Reid is just their tired old whore