Posted on 03/02/2019 9:36:35 AM PST by rktman
Special interest environmental groups got stung recently by an 8-0 U.S.Supreme Court opinion that held private landowners cannot be compelled to forego future economic uses of their property and at their own expense convert their land into suitable habitat for an endangered frog. Now radical greens are eyeing even bigger land grabs.
The Natural Resources Defense Council has sued the Department of the Interior for failing to designate “critical habitat” for the “endangered” rusty patched bumblebee. It’s the latest of many Endangered Species Act (ESA) lawsuits, abusive sue-and-settle litigation, and other actions involving insects, and it led to an eleventh-hour Obama Administration endangered designation for the rusty patched bee.
Interior points out that extremely limited knowledge about RPBs makes critical habitat determinations impossible. The NRDC counters that Interior must designate habitats based on “best available evidence.” The problem is, available information is so inadequate, conjectural, false or falsified that it must absolutely not be used to justify the astounding potential impacts of RPB habitat designations.
For example, a wide-ranging international study of wild bees, published inNature Communications, found that only 2% of wild bee species are responsible for 80% of all crop visits. Most wild bees never even come into contact with crops or the pesticides that supposedly harm them.
Even more compelling, the Nature study determined that the 2% of wild bees that do visit crops – and so would be most exposed to pesticides – are among the healthiest bee species on Earth.
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They even plant evidence to get their way. Open public land accessible to all is a unique concept. A freedom and liberty concept The greens want to block public access or limit it to their select group of hikers
It will have a complete chapter about how Trump and the GOP are trying to gut the ESA.
So they won’t name the ACTUAL writer then?
Is this from The Onion?
Planting evidence is nothing new to the enviros. In the past they have used “throw down pelts of alleged endangered species to block off land.
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