Posted on 07/03/2014 9:51:37 PM PDT by george76
Last month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the meadow jumping mouse as an endangered species. Now, the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees the Santa Fe National Forest, is considering erecting a series of 8-foot high fences to protect the mouse’s habitat.
The Luceros, members of the San Diego Cattleman’s Association and holders of grazing permits with the federal government, say the fences will lock out their cattle — as well as those of other permit holders — from ever returning to the meadow where the livestock graze for 20 days in the spring and up to 40 days in the fall.
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the mouse is active three to four months out of the year and spends the rest of its time hibernating.
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Some 275 miles south, in Otero County, the Forest Service reinforced locked gates to keep out cattle from a creek called the Agua Chiquita to protect the mouse’s habitat. .. An attorney for Otero County says the state of New Mexico – not the federal government – has the right to access to the water to the creek and a lawsuit may be in the offing.
While the locked gate in the Otero County controversy keeps out only cattle, the Luceros complain 8-foot fencing in the Forest Service proposal in the Santa Fe Forest would keep out just about all forms of wildlife, including elk.
(Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.org ...
The ESA cites a host of treaties held at the UN for its statutory authority.
No they're not. The budget to manage "recovery" is non-discretionary. Maintaining the mouse in its endangered status is job-security.
The law requires "the best available science." The bureaucrats then go about defining what that is in such a way that they can do as you suggested.
That is the ostensible point. The real point is to get the American public off Federal lands to become a bureaucratic fiefdom under the control of those who own feedlots and their suppliers.
Reflectometry says those days are numbered.
What is Reflectometry?
It is how power companies pinpoint a line break from the office. They send a pulse down the line and if the return waves bouncing off the various resistances changes, especially if the signal reflects off an open circuit, they can use the timing of the reflection to tell them where it is.
Thanks for that info.
Reflectometry, in northern New Mexico would be looked upon as another stupid idea the Gringos came up with and ignore it or shoot out power lines.
Been there, many times and I've heard the bravado you express before too, and in communities that have since been destroyed. Once the welfare dependents and bureaucrats outnumber the working residents, that picture starts to change. Give it ten years and you won't recognize the place unless you win the battle the right way.
Good points. El Rito, north of Abiquiu, for instance, is now basically a liberal/progressive enclave. The government is their god.
Nothing but pussey thinking by left leaning "leaders!" People that think that critics of the founding and all other aspects of our christian/capitalistic nation are those who love America better than you and I!!!
This endangered species crap has gone too far.
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