Posted on 04/28/2011 8:06:22 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
A respectful crowd of Permian Basin residents gathered at Midland Center on Wednesday to speak at a public hearing about the listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species.
The listing possibly could shut down oil and gas, grazing and farming operations in Andrews, Crane, Gaines, Ward and Winkler counties in West Texas and Chaves, Eddy, Lea and Roosevelt counties in New Mexico.
The hearing was conducted by officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, overseen by Jeff Humphrey, public outreach specialist with the service out of Arizona.
Wally Murphy, New Mexico state field supervisor, told the audience that the lizard, which lives in a narrow band of shinnery oak dunes that stretches primarily from New Mexico into parts of Texas, had been considered a candidate for listing in 2001 and cited threats from habitat fragmentation, pollution, predation and climate change. If listed, he said, operations would be prohibited that could interrupt its breeding, eating or sheltering in habitat areas where the lizard is found.
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The gooberment scientists listed “climate change” as a threat to the lizard.
$5.00 gas because of a reptile. Correction two reptiles. One in the west and one in DC! God save the Republic.
The reptiloid aliens secretly controlling the world are merely protecting their Terran kin.
One, possibly two of the reptiloid aliens are getting married tomorrow.
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/38830-possession-is-no-myth-its-rampant
You are being a bit optimistic at $5.00/gallon if this critter is listed. Also, the listing would affect food prices as grazing and farming would be affected.
I’ll give you a threat to that lizard!
” The listing possibly could shut down oil and gas, grazing and farming operations in Andrews, Crane, Gaines, Ward and Winkler counties in West Texas and Chaves, Eddy, Lea and Roosevelt counties in New Mexico. “
Agenda established.
Barack Obama hates their guts.
This also affects cattle production and farming. Higher food prices anyone?
Of course. If we save this tiny creature gorebull warming will end and we can power our economy with pixie dust and unicorn poo.
Just another attack on Texas by Zero and his organized crime family. There is no science here, just payback politics.
Hear they taste like chicken if fried just right.
No. I was at work. I do know that this is a manufactured
“crisis” aimed at shutting down drilling, just when we need
it the most, because the fake president WANTS gas prices
to get higher. This would pimp his favorite project—green
mini-cars that are absolutely useless out here.
This lizard has survived nicely without help from the incompetency
of the federal government and this, the most bumbling
administration in history!
hell somebody could offer cash prize who can bring the most dead sagebrush lizards
(if that what it takes to send a message to the ecoscum and their puppets so be it)
This also affects his precious wind turbines.
We have more lizards than the dogs can chase!..........What we really need are jobs, good paying jobs, drilling jobs and then this county and city can get out of this recession.
http://www.rw.ttu.edu/newsletter/PDF/Mgmtnotes/SAND%20SHINNERY%20OAK%20CONTROL%20AND%20MANAGEMENT.pdf
The lizards live in the shinnery oak environment, and Texas has been trying to limit the growth of shinnery oak for decades.
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