>>>>>>the lizards like pipelines and service roads: “…pipeline cuts and sand roads serve as preferred habitat…
don’tcha love it when the animals like high tech as much as most humans?
We can talk about cutting back agencies all we want, but until we change the ESA, Clean Water and Clean Air acts to fix these deficiencies, we’re spitting in the wind.
Liberals see beautiful land and rather than saving to buy it - or putting a purchase to a vote ... they steal the land with some bogus 'endangered' animal...
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Environmental groups are raping the American taxpayer as they insist on imposing their view of the new world order on the rest of us. The wolves have been breaking the back of western ranchers, let’s hope this finally breaks the ESA law. A mouse was restrored to endangered species protection in wheat fields in Wyoming, they are also protected in Colorado....WHY?
Ending food and energy production is a big part of the environmental movement and we need to figure out why, in the meantime take the ESA tool away.
I just found out that the Iowa flooding was caused by the corps of engineers being told to hold the water behind the dams (when they should have released it earlier and more slowly) in order for some sturgeon to finish spawning. So, we destroyed millions of acres of crops & farmland & miles of highways so a fish could breed.
This is what you get when you view humans as just another animal on this planet.
I live a couple town over now, and you know what? I've got that rare salamander in my backyard -- but I keep my mouth shut about it.
Environment, politics, sex, marriage, birth control, abortion, art, movies, novels, education, ... we have been practiced upon.
Should we not have a clue by now? Anything said by anyone about how we should change to make things better is most likely wrong. And the one saying it is either an useful idiot or is practicing upon us.
Environmentalism is the religion of the left. It needs to be declared as such and the “separation clause” enforced prohibiting them from any governmental involvement.
The way to protect ‘endangered’ species is to cross-breed them with related species, not to try to control the environment.
We can’t control the weather, much less the climate and certainly not the environment.
The Outer Banks of North Carolina (OBX) is going through the same thing, closing ORV in order to “save” a bird that is not endangered. Businesses are going under, people are not allowed to fish at the “Cape Point” during nesting times and generations of traditions are going under. The NPS has authorized or killed animlas themsilves in the thousands, in order to keep the predators away from the eggs on the beach. The Audobon and D.O.W. want NO HUMAN activity on the OBX.
Some animals are more equal than others...
The EPA, brought to us by the same Richard Nixon the left vilify, has been an incredibly effective tool for them to ply their criminal activity.
Without a competing private management system (such as mine), this will never get any better, as the conflicts of interest inherent to political control of natural resources will never endure any check that might mitigate either agency, university, or activist behavior.
99.9% of all species that have ever existed on this planet are extinct.
The environmentalists "reintroduced" the lynx in Colorado (questionable that it ever ranged here), then proceeded to block off huge areas by finding lynx hair in fences and on rubbing trees, and using it to claim critical habitat. Somebody checked the DNA of the hair against a museum sample, and lo and behold, it was all the same DNA ! The hair on the rubbing posts had been planted, by the very people who were conducting the studies, and making the habitat decisions.
This has also happened with endangered plants ( people have been seen transplanting them), and of course when you get down to the insect level, it's pretty easy to plant populations wherever you need one.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar, rampant level of fraud in the "science".
PS the reintroduced lynx all tried to go back to Canada from whence they were removed. They didn't like Colorado, nor did they appreciate being relocated from their homes and families.
Twenty years ago I lived in and also had an investment lot in a tract home development near Navarre, in the Florida Panhandle. The real estate agents called the surrounding swamp “Greenbrakes” (cough). When we dug a hole for the mailbox, we hit water at two feet.
At that time, “wetland” was defined as a place where your footstep filled with water after X amount of minutes. Some years later it was expanded to include right AFTER a rainstorm. I expected the next step would be DURING and bailed out.
The universe isn’t the only thing constantly expanding.
So rather than take the common-sense approach of shipping milkweed seed packets to each school, and having kids plant milkweed in their back yards for butterflies (which would take milkweed off the endangered species list real fast), they have to kill the butterflies.
It is past time for opponents of some of the crazy endangered species rules to organize independent scientific peer review groups to expose this systematic fraud.
Rallies do no good. We must hold the bureaucrats accountable through scientific reveiw.
When one has heard, read stories of the “scientists”, their environmental entourages, and their taxpayer funded field trips where they sit around drinking beer, playing cards, and finally pass around official looking score cards to fill out how many spotted owls each of them has seen during their sortie into the woods, one must presume those owls were spotted cavorting about with Pink Elephants, and Unicorns.