RED ALERT (Property Rights)or something similar.
This defines the issue at hand for the reader.
I read the article on the next round of the poisoning of Lake Davis (Lake Davis on hook again, May 31, 2004) dreading what it portends for the rest of the state. This will soon be the standard.AB 2631 is an invasive species bill that has passed the Assembly and is now in the Senate. The intent is to go after mitten crabs and star thistle. The implications are much worse.
Are we going to go after barred owls that are displacing the spotted owl? How about the wild horses roaming the arid areas? Are we going to change our policy on coho salmon? Archeology shows these fish are not native to CA. What about all those eucalyptus trees? Shall we cut them all?
And the budget! How is the creation of a whole new bureaucracy going to effect that?
And to those who think that the ESA took their property rights away, wait until you can’t build that dream house or plow that field or graze those cattle because they want to promote some native grass, endangered or not.
I'll let everyone know if it gets published.
I carried over the original thread title to this thread. You are right, a little clarification would have probably have eliminated critism like that drivel in post #47.
It blows me away how so many think that this kind of stuff is no big deal. I was out on a 13 acre parcel yesterday explaining to the landowner how the State will not issue him a permit to cut any trees within 150' of the creek that flows through his property...he may cut them for firewood, but may not sell them to a sawmill for profit....all of this from a State $15 billion in the hole...so who are the wackos here?