Posted on 02/17/2013 5:30:02 PM PST by george76
More than 200 people crowded into the Monticello High School auditorium on February 7 for a public hearing on the proposed designation of endangered species status for the small population of Gunnision Sage Grouse in San Juan County.
Representatives from the US Fish and Wildlife Service faced a mostly hostile but mostly respectful crowd. They were there to explain the rationale behind the proposed designation and how it may affect the area.
Two rules are proposed: one would designate the bird as an endangered species and the other would designation large swaths of land as critical habitat.
San Juan County Planner Nick Sandberg explained that challenging the designation as an endangered species may be difficult because it is part of the settlement of a lawsuit.
Sandberg added that challenging the designation of critical habitat may be the best approach for local landowners.
Sandberg said that the comment should not be emotional and should focus on specific and identifiable impacts on the land and on the threat to the livelihood of area residents.
Pleading that the responses should be non-emotional may be very difficult in what has become a very emotional issue.
The frustration that many local landowners feel over the ongoing public lands battles quickly turns into rage over this designation, because it impacts primarily private land.
Approximately 95 percent of the critical habitat proposed for San Juan County is on private land. At roughly 140,000 acres, this represents an estimated 35 percent of the total private land in the entire county.
The impact on private land is significant since more than 92 percent of the land in San Juan County is owned by the state or federal government, leaving just eight percent of the total land mass as private ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at sjrnews.com ...
“Pleading that the responses should be non-emotional may be very difficult in what has become a very emotional issue. “
I REALLY sick of PC types demanding that you and I ‘not get emotional’ when they are screwing us every way they can!
GET MAD PEOPLE! IT’s the only way they’ll even know you exist!
GET MAD PEOPLE! ITs the only way theyll even know you exist!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q
Sage Grouse?
Won’t the Owls get mad over stealing of THEIR label: WISE?
Members of the Great Fuster Cluck of the Four Corners Area should have been told by NOW that the last of the desperadoes has been located.
Folks found out that they taste BETTER than Spotted Owl!
"Ah, look at the grouse!"
Yuk yuk!!!!
We’re BACK!!
If anyone wants to be on or off the Agenda 21 ping list, please notify me by Freepmail. It is a relatively low volume list in which we have been exploring the UN Agenda21 and related topics. We have collected our studies with threads, links, and discussions on the Agenda 21 thread which can be found here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738418/posts
NEW ACTION THREAD:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2863065/posts
Post 128 of the Action Thread is a summary of the history of Agenda 21, what they are doing, what to do about it and a good bibliography for further reading.
My eldest son has gone to the "dark side" and I have little to say to him these days. In addition to his expression of himself, he became and is the lead in their local UNION! Below is the pic he uses for public exposure (FaceBook, Link'n, et al)...
Last year, his wife committed suicide, and he is left with two small children. He had gone to church on a Sunday evening with the kids, came home and found her in the bath tub, gun in hand, shot herself in the gut.
I can't help but feel his choice of profession (and how he has changed) had something to do with it... but who knows! I just know he is not the same as the son I raised!!!
Very sorry for you.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.