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Lawsuits over spotted frog worry farmers
Bend Bulletin ^ | Feb. 7, 2016 | Joseph Ditzler

Posted on 02/07/2016 3:24:51 PM PST by Twotone

The farm fields in Jefferson County are quiet this time of year, the irrigation ditches dry, the crops dormant and the tractors, combines and balers parked in barns until spring.

Even so, farmers are busy calculating their costs for the spring planting season, and this year they're factoring in a little bit of fear.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: climatechange; esa; irrigation; water
Water rights, an 'endangered' frog & more farmers in peril...
1 posted on 02/07/2016 3:24:51 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone
I don't understand why the opponents of the "frog move" won't "let it be known" that the frogs will "prosper" under current conditions if the lawsuits are dropped.

And that they can't guarantee the converse won't happen if lawsuit terrorism proceeds.

2 posted on 02/07/2016 3:29:58 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: Twotone

In Oregon.


3 posted on 02/07/2016 3:41:26 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Twotone

Kieran Suckling and the Center of Biological Diversity are almost without exception behind these lawsuits. They ALWAYS put some low form of life, like this frog, ahead of our food supply and human’s livelihoods. Suckling also organized a counter-protest at the Oregon standoff where Fincum was murdered.


4 posted on 02/07/2016 4:08:45 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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5 posted on 02/07/2016 5:38:48 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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