Posted on 09/29/2011 8:43:35 AM PDT by george76
The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.
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With a Friday deadline to act on more than 700 pending cases, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service already has issued decisions advancing more than 500 species toward potential new protections under the Endangered Species Act...
Patrick Parenteau, an environmental lawprofessor at the University of Vermont. "They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now. This is the largest number of listing actions we've seen in a very long time, in decades."
Also among species that advanced for further consideration are 35 snails from Nevada's Great Basin, 82 crawfish from the Southeast, 99 Hawaiian plants and a motley cast of butterflies, birds, fish, beetles, frogs, lizards, mussels and more from every corner of the country.
Some have languished for decades on a "candidate list" of species the government says warrant protection but that it lacks the resources to help.
The flurry of recent action could help revive Obama's standing among wildlife advocates upset over the administration's support for taking gray wolves off the endangered list in the Northern Rockies and Upper Great Lakes, among other issues.
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The tiniest snail will make a 10 million dollar project cost 40 million. Got to clear those snails. Our hard earned tax dollars at work. Obama has got to go. Now.
Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity and New Mexico-based WildEarth Guardians are here to help.
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“They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now.”
Oh I will just bet they are! Especially since they know the Lame One is going to lose in the next election.
There is only ONE cure- Abolish the EPA; Repeal the ESA; return ALL “federally owned” land to the states. And we had better do it soon.
Evil, pure evil.
Thank you Dicky Nixon for that and the EPA, worse accomplishments besides ping pong.
Outstanding! More millstones around the neck of our economy.
The best idea would be to give it to the people. This is our land. Governments including the states and soem cities have possession of too much of our land.
Ping.
Cass Sunsteen...
I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of jobs this caper by Obama and his appointed thugs will cost the people of our country? This is criminal!
” Cass Sunsteen... “
We can only wish that he/she/it was an endangered species....
Property taxes (government rent) and emanate domain have already stolen away our right to own property. They charge us every year for our right to live on it, and they can take it away from us at any time. The politicians control it ALL.
This is how far our country has fallen.
The EPA is our KGB.
Tear down the EPA brick by brick, swivel chair by swivel chair, leftard scumbag by leftard scumbag.
99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.
99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.
99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.
Then his pals can get EPA waivers after they donate enough campaign cash
AMEN!.....the Dept. of Education also!
It’s high time we fight back before the leftists make it much worse. The lefties parade around the myth that eminent domain is for the greater good, but if they could they’d take the land with my house on it and build a hundred foot tall statue of their hero Obama. The leftists fritter away money like it is water.
so when I stopped last evening for that slow-moving gopher tortoise crossing the road I missed my last chance?
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