Posted on 03/05/2014 9:22:47 AM PST by george76
The sage grouse's potential addition to the endangered species list is a problem of epic economic consequences to states in the West, with Herbert explaining that the impact in lost economic development in Utah tops $41 billion for the oil and gas industry alone.
"The negative impacts are not acceptable to me and should not be acceptable to anyone here," Herbert told the crowd.
The event at the Utah Department of Natural Resources' auditorium is actually a precursor to a national summit that will be held in Salt Lake City this fall.
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a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to add the football-size bird to the endangered species list would have enormous consequences to industry, recreation, ranchers and private landowners.
"The threat of having the sage grouse listed is real," Herbert said.
In Utah, for example, the majority of the bird's population is found on private or school trust lands.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
And no clicking on bank robbing cat pictures either.
If you read up on them you find out that just about every carnivorous animal that run in the same neighborhood think they are delicious. Those too small to eat the bird like the eggs.
Actually, they taste like hammered crap - at least in the fall, when the hunting season is/was.
The Shoshone told us at a sage grouse meeting about 10 years ago in Nevada that “the white man is stupid - he eats the sage grouse in the fall, when it tastes horrible. Spring is the time to eat sage grouse.”
The USFWS reps nearly lost their heads upon hearing this.
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