[Yaelle]

[GraceG]

I never understood why they couldn’t build side ponds alongside the rivers that they could fill up with water without having to use dams if they are so concerned about damns...

[stars & stripes forever]

[‘What Civilized Society Destroys Its Own Food Source For A Three-Inch Fish?’]

The same people whose marijuana plants are drying up the fresh water creeks.

[Fungi]

Is the delta smelt an endemic species? Please answer that wacko RATS.Why is the lunatic left willing to cut their own throats for the sake of a fish? Classical evolutionary theory postulates that 95 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. So why are they trying to save one fish? Answer: government control; a false theory perpetuating false draconian measures to institute more taxation and government control. The majority is being subjugated by the Washington elite living in a paradise inside the beltway. This must stop--now.

[MarkL]

The same people who believe the world would be a better place with no human beings... Of course, they always except themselves from that solution.

Mark

[gingerbread]

The whole state of California has been completely buffaloed by these bureaucrats in the EPA. Instead of fighting them, the whole population just laid down in submission. Once these Washington bureaucrats realized that they can get away with anything and every thing, they started on the other states. The states that fought back, the EPA backed down. I have one thing to tell these people of California. You cannot depend on your elected officials to fight for you, cause they are part of the problem. It’s up to all you citizens of California to fight back.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

What society honors madmen?

[867V309]

What Civilized Society Destroys Its Own Food Source For A Three-Inch Fish?

None. That's why this happens in California.

[9thLife]

Leftist Malthusian Poverty-Inducing Scarcity Machine at work.

[Gen.Blather]

Go get samples of all the poor endangered whatsits and stop wasting water on them. When the drought ends and water flows let them loose again. (But this won’t happen as it is the Left’s best weapon to stop development and jobs.)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Portcall24]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Travis McGee]

File it under “suicide of the West.”

[Former Proud Canadian]

The same society that burns an excellent food crop, corn, for fuel.

All by government edict. Is it pitchfork time yet?

[Blue Collar Christian]

To answer the question heading the article; a civilized society that has been hijacked by haters of civilized society.

[hal ogen]

An insane one run by insane LIBs.

[GOPJ]

The EPA is filled with the same types of people who block a turn lane for no reason other than meanness.

[A Navy Vet]

I just don't get the obsession with eco-nazis and their insistence that NO species should become extinct. Isn't it a fact that some 95% or more of all species that ever existed are now extinct? So what? The world kept turning and guess who rose to the top of the food chain?

Why should anyone give a crap about a minnow? What do they add to the betterment of the environment or mankind? Are there no other fish for bigger fish to eat or suck up algea? If the smelt were the livelihood of fishermen, there may be some point to this insanity, but the smelt is just a frigging minnow. Exactly who or what is benefitting from there existence?

To take the eco-nazis' arguement to it's logical conclusion, we shouldn't be trying to eradicate certain bacteria and viruses. After all, they are a species of life.

Yes, there is current balance in the food chain, but that has changed through time immorial. Some die off and some adapt like the precious spotted owl. They simply re-located when the trees were being cut down.

[Cronos]

California has a REPUBLICAN assemblywoman? I thought they were extinct

[Doomonyou]