Posted on 05/12/2014 1:08:13 PM PDT by jazusamo
In what some are calling a replay of the standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, a New Mexico county board agreed Monday to instruct the sheriff to remove the Forest Service gates blocking thirsty cattle from reaching water, setting up a clash with federal agents over state water rights and endangered species.
The Otero County Commission voted 2-0, with one commissioner absent, to “immediately take steps to remove or open gates that are unlawfully denying citizens access to their private property rights.”
Ranchers became alarmed earlier this year when Forest Service officials refused to open gates allowing cattle in the drought-stricken region to reach a creek in the Lincoln National Forest. Local rangers have said that they are trying to protect the riparian area, which is considered habitat for the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse.
The mouse is expected to be listed as an endangered species in June. The proposed listing, which would include as much as 193 miles of critical habitat in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, comes after a 251-species settlement with WildEarth Guardians in 2011.
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Feds rile ranchers by fencing off water for cattle — to protect a jumping mouse!
Gov Susanna Martinez just poked the Holy Emperor in the eye
Sounds like a good place to dump a couple hundred pounds of Decon. No more endangered mouse.
Just say they are illegal cattle and the BLM will lead them to water.
Woo-hoo! States rights! Freedom!
Inmates now running asylum?
Amen to that.
If the Feds like that rodent so much they should come and round them up and take them home.
The mouse is expected to be listed as an endangered species in June.
Soooo, it’s not listed yet. Open the gates, set my
bovines free.
Who the hell are the Wildearth Guardians and why is
our government settling with them?
There’s a special law involved and it favors ranchers. I’ll have to go back and find it again.
NM who voted for zer0? gotta get some popcorn.
Does the Forestry Service have a SWAT team? Think we’ll find out?
“Many of us have families who have sacrificed lives and lands, but we trust the United States Forest Service to sustain our forest,” said Ms. Lang.
If the USFS did in fact sustain the forests, she might have a point. Yet, it seems to me, that the most spectacular and catastrophic fires in recent years are on federal lands. The policy appears to be one of Let it Grow, Let ir Rot, and Let it Burn. Untold thousands of animals have lost their lives in these BBQs, and may of them on the "endangered species" list. And now, instead of bothering to find a reasonable compromise, the USFS simply bullies its way into a solution.
Wildearth Guardians are another group of brie & chablis eco-kooks: the real issue here is why is there a right of private action for eco-kooks and not the rest of us?
The "Endangered Species Act" needs to be replaced by an "Endagered Humans and Jobs Act" that removes the right of private action regarding enforcement of eco-asshattery and makes the Feds foot the legal bill for landowners, ranchers, miners and others when Fedzilla stomps on their property rights.
The Government will be sending a Federal Agent as personal body guard to each jumping mouse.
They’ve got “law enforcement”, a couple years ago they were writing speeding tickets on a state road that passed through some national forest. Our local Deputies let them know they weren’t welcome.
Commie som bitches have taken over the environmental movement and they are in league with the federal government to drive humans off the land and into cities.
Can that statement get me on the drone strike list?
FUBO
I couldn’t agree more.
The USFS like the BLM have been infiltrated over many years with environmentalists that no longer manage the lands for the public good. They’re interested in furthering the radical enviros causes including stopping the use of natural resources and basically keeping everyone other than hikers off the lands.
“The meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius) is the most widely distributed mouse in the subfamily Zapodinae. It may be found from the Atlantic coast, to the Great Plains, as far north as the arctic tree lines in Canada and Alaska, and as far south as Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, and New Mexico.”
To even suggest that this New Mexico variety is so endangered that 193 square miles of land should be put off limits to human use is tantamount to declaring the sewer roaches of New York City endangered.
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