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Conservationists warn of border fence's impact
Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 22, 2008 | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

Posted on 08/22/2008 1:01:33 PM PDT by 3AngelaD

MISSION, TX -- The Bush administration's recently proposed changes to rules involving endangered species could lead to projects like the fence being built along the U.S.-Mexico border that could threaten endangered wildlife, the Sierra Club warned Friday.

"We're talking about animals already pushed to the brink of extinction," Liz Walsh, chairwoman of the group's endangered species committee, said at a news conference near a border fence construction site.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderfence; environment; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; openborders
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To: 3AngelaD

The sierra club worships at the alter of evolution, but they don’t let it happen.


21 posted on 08/22/2008 1:33:15 PM PDT by devistate one four (H I V Homophobia Is Vindicated)
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To: 3AngelaD

The sierra club worships at the alter of evolution, but they don’t let it happen.


22 posted on 08/22/2008 1:34:30 PM PDT by devistate one four (H I V Homophobia Is Vindicated)
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To: 3AngelaD

Maybe they are trying to conserve Mexicans.


23 posted on 08/22/2008 1:35:12 PM PDT by frankjr
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To: LibLieSlayer
Screw the environment... build the fence NOW!!!!!!!

That's just it -- if this fence is built right, with a few strategically placed areas to accommodate certain mammal migrations (and kept guarded, of course), there would be no damage to the environment at all. But the Sierra Club won't listen to reason. They're for open borders, even though these illegals absolutely TRASH southern Arizona. Their hypocrisy is appalling.

24 posted on 08/22/2008 1:43:29 PM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: 3AngelaD
Only MALE or FEMALE ocelots are on the American side of the border? Why would it require a border crossing for a cat to mate?

Every cat I've ever owned found ways out of hermetically sealed containers to mate. Walls were climbed. Roofs were jumped. I have scars from the escape attempts of cats in heat. Perhaps we are underestimating the cat.

However, with the BILLIONS we will save in medical, crime, education, housing, etc., I'm certain we can find a way to make sure the ocelot continues. And maybe disabled American citizens can get housing!

25 posted on 08/22/2008 1:46:05 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Now here at the Rock we have two rules. Rule #1 obey all rules. Rule #2 no writing on the walls...)
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To: kitkat

The dodo is gone too and I read that they were good eating.


26 posted on 08/22/2008 1:50:22 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: Hi Heels

They are welcome to the dozens of stray cats in my neighborhood a couple hundred miles north of the border.

I guess the value of a stray cat depends on where it lives.


27 posted on 08/22/2008 1:51:59 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: Dante3

Yeah. Funny how they never talk about the environmental impact of 30M+ illegals.


28 posted on 08/22/2008 1:53:24 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: 3AngelaD
One of the more hilarious arguments I have heard are the Audubon people who are against the fence because it “endangers rare bird species” and haven’t figured out yet that 1) birds aren’t bothered all that much by fences and 2) the bird habitat is being destroyed on a large scale by illegals crossing.

Penguins will be most affected. There will come a day when you won't even see a penguin at the border.

29 posted on 08/22/2008 1:53:51 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: 3AngelaD

I’m FROM the Rio Grande Valley, that d****d fence is not going to cause any critter to be extinct and it would be great to block illegals and cause them to be few in number, very few, zero would be fine.

The lies continue...

In Central Texas, we are seeing many people moving from the Valley to our area, they are basically anglo (that’s what we called ourselves in S. Texas—still do) and they are now speaking of the rudeness in the public square towards anglos, racism is rampant but oh well, they’re protected doncha know.

BTW, the racial ration has traditionally been 80/20 (Hispanic/Anglo) so they’ve NEVER been the “minority” there. It’s always been “Little Mexico”. I used to enjoy the lifestyle there but not with the narcotics, anti-anglo racism and rudeness, nope, don’t need to visit nor drop $$ there anymore.


30 posted on 08/22/2008 2:05:56 PM PDT by brushcop (We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
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To: 3AngelaD
projects like the fence being built along the U.S.-Mexico border that could threaten endangered wildlife, the Sierra Club warned Friday.

Where are the concerns about this wildlife being disturbed and/or trampled by millions of illegal aliens?

31 posted on 08/22/2008 2:11:07 PM PDT by RJL
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To: onlylewis

“If we save the animals, plants and trees without respect to humans living on the earth what human will be left to know that we actually saved the earth?”

That’s the goal - no humans. Eco-fascists are the ultimate racists - they hate the human race. Get a bunch of these leftist slugs drunk, and they’ll admit they consider humans a virus that needs to be destroyed.

In fascist Germany, 75% of all German “nature” groups had joined the Nazi Party by 1939. Environmentalists, due to their psychotic egoistical nature, are naturally attracted to the destructive fascist and Nazi philosophy and are working hard to destroy individualism, free enterprise, private property and liberty in America. And the federal government is infested with these fascists, especially in the EPA.

If Nobama gets in, the EPA will seek control over every drop of water and blade of grass in America. The scum at EPA tipped their hand in the US v Rapanos decision.

Seventy years ago they would have been standing on street corners screaming “Seig heil!”

Eco-fascists are the real virus on America’s body.


32 posted on 08/22/2008 2:12:03 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: 3AngelaD

It will keep all the refuse on the southside of the border where the fence is so theres your conservation.Problem solved.


33 posted on 08/22/2008 2:25:47 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: 3AngelaD

From the article:

“The border fence will destroy habitat and make it harder to maintain the numbers for a variety of animals, including endangered large cats such as the ocelot and jaguarundi.”

How about creating a slush fund from the $20 billion in un-taxed remittances back to Mexico to construct a zoo on the Mexican side?

Call it the Tijuana Ocelot Refuge.


34 posted on 08/22/2008 2:30:47 PM PDT by wac3rd (Carter80/Obama08)
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To: Man50D
the media is NOT DOING it's Job

I would bet money that some group like la laza or Move on.org is paying them to shrill against the fence and tie it up with environmental lawsuits

35 posted on 08/22/2008 2:32:34 PM PDT by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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To: Man50D

“We’re talking about animals law abiding American ciizens already pushed to the brink of extinction,”

Exactly.......


36 posted on 08/22/2008 2:33:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Man50D

My thoughts exactly. Animals or Americans?


37 posted on 08/22/2008 2:45:45 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: F-117A

Yes and not just at the border!


38 posted on 08/22/2008 4:06:34 PM PDT by Linden1209
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