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I knew a man years ago who owned two lots in the keys - I think Key Largo - definitely not Key West... Anyhow, some liberal 'enviromentialist' wanted to buy the land and the man refused to sell. A few months later a endangered lizard or something like that was found on the property and development was denied. The man kept the land for 20 years - died of cancer without selling - his land had been made worthless to him. What he got out of owning the land was the right to pay taxes on it.

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...

Having moved out of the Keys almost a year ago, after 35 years there, I can concur that enviros have run amok with their endangered species listings there. Key Largo has the Key Largo Wood Rat, the Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly and probably 1/2 dozen more that don’t come to mind right now. I lived in the Lower Keys where we had the Key Deer, Keys Marsh Rabbit and many more land based animals. They are now ,moving into the waters surrounding the Keys with endangered Elkhorn and Staghorn corals. They won’t stop until development is stopped and then of course, reversed. even if your land does not have an endangered critter on it, they will now claim it’s potential habitat for said critter, i.e. if they were to drop a marsh bunny off on your property and it survived, well, there you go, prime bunny habitat.

"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... "

A growing number of them are also learning how to use the land conservancy scam to become rich and acquire huge tracts of land that they can live on as managers while restricting entry to the general public.

The injustice you described happening to your friend is a common occurance. Whenever eviros, lefties and/or certain business constituencies think confiscation of private property is in their interest, they start contriving "endangered" species to devalue or impose regulations.

A panther or turtle could walk across it. Some useless sub-species of some obscure plant might grow. A scrub jay may fly athrough it. There may be some type of tree that some bird could possibly use to build a nest.

I'm not kidding about this one - puddles could be used by sea-monkey type of organisms. We, after all, must protect even these low forms of life.

There is nearly no private property outside of urban areas where they can't exploit some type of "endangered" species concept. I and smany others here in Florida (two of whom I pinged) personally witnessed where good people are completely f***ed-over by their government and its scumbag cronies. As we speak, entire communities and business sectors (farming, logging, construction, mining etc.) are being decimated because of some type of fish, reptile or plant.

It's completely immoral and utterly insane, but unfortunately, it's modern America.