Posted on 08/19/2008 3:52:58 PM PDT by SJackson
Exactly, this thing is out of control, and should be scrapped, or at least scaled back.
There have been millions of species that have ceased to be, why should a squafish, or a hog sucker, or a snail darter cost the taxpayer tens of millions of dollars to preserve?
This stinker was sold as “Protect the Bald Eagle”..protect the noble Bear....what it has become is simply disgusting.
... the Bush administration moved to gut the Endangered Species ...
You’ve got to gut ‘em before you can eat ‘em. There’s room for all God’s creatures, right next to my mashed potatoes.”
Winner of the weekly best ROFLMAO award.
Listings are often made on the basis of “best available science” including no science or little science. That is how our SOCCC coho was listed. They had no historic information on the size of the runs. Moyle had done pressence and absence studies, but coho are three year cohorts and he only did two of the three years. One of those runs is robust, one middlen and one poor.
Also, genetics indicated that some of the runs were derived from hatchery fish imported from Skamania Washington - not even native to the area. Nevertheless, they listed the coho under ESA and have used it to take water from farms, fallow ag land, prohibit forestry activities, close roads and slowly constrict land use activities until we starve. How are you supposed to “restore” populations on the fringes of their range if there is no documentation that robust populations ever existed?
You should see some of the “political” science that passes for science by the Riverkeeper and Cal Trout. They hire a scientist, do a vapid and biased study and then government agencies embrace it as foundational and base decisions upon it. They just did that with our dam issue. The environmentalists hired their scientist, who used an obscure experimental sediment model that assumed a particle size at variance with reality and handed the bogus results to the Coastal Conservancy. The CC embraced the flawed study and built upon it for costs analysis. Meanwhile, one of the largest dam removal projects ever considered in the United States is relying on a complete piece of cr*p model to predict impacts on communities downstream.
Don’t buy the “science” argument. Most of what environmentalists pass off as science is political science.
Bush had his chance and blew it.
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