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Judge blocks Grazing on "Endangered Owl" Lands
Associated Press
| Nov. 25, 2002
| Arther Rotstein
Posted on 11/26/2002 5:57:04 AM PST by Bodacious
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By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. (November 25, 2002 10:42 p.m. EST) - A federal judge has issued an injunction that could temporarily ban cattle grazing on huge swaths of national forest land identified as nesting and foraging sites for the endangered Mexican spotted owl.
U.S. District Judge Raner Collins' order blocking grazing in areas of Arizona and New Mexico was signed Thursday in response to a lawsuit by environmental groups who want to remove cattle from spotted owl habitat.
The injunction is set to kick in Jan. 22. But it won't go into effect if the Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service complete a new biological review before then, Collins said.
The last such review, which resulted in amended grazing standards set by the Forest Service in 1996, took a couple of years to complete, said Jim Angell, an attorney for Earthjustice, a nonprofit public interest law firm and a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Those standards were designed to protect owl habitat and ensure its survival. Grazing threatens the owl by reducing its favorite prey, degrading streamside vegetation and slowing the growth of habitat favorable to the bird, environmentalists contend.
"Frankly, they may try to hurry this through so the time grazing is enjoined is shortened," Angell said Monday of the biological review. "My fear is they will try to rush this thing out as quickly as possible and, as a result, their analysis will be shoddy."
Collins didn't specify how many acres were included in the injunction, but Angell put the number at at least 200,000. Attorneys representing the Justice Department and the Arizona Cattle Growers Association didn't return calls seeking comment Monday.
Collins' injunction is the latest step in a long-running lawsuit over the owl habitat. Last month, he found that the Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to prevent overgrazing on millions of acres of national forest in the two states.
The government or the Arizona Cattle Growers Association could appeal Collins' order. Art Morrison, a spokesman for the Forest Service's regional headquarters in Albuquerque, N.M., said officials haven't consulted with the Justice Department on the ruling yet.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; US: Arizona; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: arizona; enviralists; enviroment; landgrab
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To: BOBTHENAILER
I have nothing against ranchers. I have everything, however, against whining about entitlements. Nobody has a right to undermarket rates for grazing on publicly owned land.
To: Bodacious
Link? Please? I've been searching Google, AP, every way I can think of since my first post on this thread, and it isn't coming up. Maybe I don't know how to do an effective search, but I can't find the article. Thanks.
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posted on
11/26/2002 7:40:05 AM PST
by
.38sw
To: Sangamon Kid
I thiink that what was meant to be expressed is that the land is worthless except for grazing. Just my interpetation.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Nobody has a right to undermarket rates for grazing on publicly owned land.I think the ranchers who have naturally grazed these lands for decades should be deeded the acreage for "use and improvement".
That way you wouldn't have to waste your tax dollars on frivolous lawsuits brought by taxpayer funded, legally immune, enviro-nazis.
To: BOBTHENAILER
Free land to squatters, eh?
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Let the market for land decide what the price of grazing rights will be.
The market really has determined what the price will be. There is probably no other use for that land other than grazing. If the ranchers can't use it, no one else will pay the government for use of the land and the government loses out on that money. It isn't subsidizing the ranchers, it is the fact that the government is getting something for which there would be no other use. The public benefits from lower beef prices.
I absolutely despise all you green A@@holes.
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posted on
11/26/2002 7:48:15 AM PST
by
saminfl
To: Bodacious
Hoot Gibson
...I wonder what old Hoot would say about this.
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posted on
11/26/2002 7:49:29 AM PST
by
Consort
To: Bodacious
TUCSON, Ariz. (November 25, 2002 10:42 p.m. EST) - A federal judge has issued an injunction that could temporarily ban cattle grazing on huge swaths of national forest land identified as nesting and foraging sites for the endangered Mexican spotted owl Owls nest in TREES ... how many cattle do you know that eat wood ?? Bunch of moron judges.
To: FreePaul
"I agree. The market should determine the cost of grazing."
Correct but there are impediments to the market like this decision and the thousands like it. Furthermore, they change so often (read increasingly restrictive), that it is well nigh impossible to "determine the cost of grazing"
"Get the government out of it."
Amen, but you are in fantasy land if you think that will ever happen.
"Put the land in private hands and let the market determine the cost of grazing. It's that simple."
Again correct, but in reality, it won't happen. Even if the land were in private hands, the government rulings as cited in this thread, obviate a free market for beef. Ergo, we would all become vegetarians.
Your premise is spot on, but it won't happen until after the next revolution.
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posted on
11/26/2002 7:52:22 AM PST
by
VMI70
To: concerned about politics
See #36
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posted on
11/26/2002 7:55:03 AM PST
by
VMI70
To: saminfl
Oh? If a guy decided he didn't want to run his own cattle anymore, and just wanted to lease out grazing rights, you're telling me that he charges the same as BLM grazing rates? Riiiiiiiight.
And I ain't a green.
I still can't find the story, as no link is provided. Can anybody help? I apologize if I'm an internet moron. but I'd really like a link to the story. Thanks.
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posted on
11/26/2002 8:00:41 AM PST
by
.38sw
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Free land to squatters, eh?
On March 30, 1867, the two parties agreed
that the United States would pay Russia $7.2 million for the
territory of Alaska. For less than 2 cents an acre, the United
States acquired nearly 600,000 square miles.
So, there is no private property in Alaska?
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Free land to squatters, eh?Yeah, why not? Better them that uses it than those mother@@#$%$ that want it permanently off limits.
What you and those that support the enviro-nazi agenda don't realize, is that the cost of your way of life goes up every time one of these taxpayer funded lawsuits hits the courts.
Then again, you probably don't care.
To: .38sw
Check Newsday, Tucson Citizen, ABC News, The Guardian or do a Google News search for grazing. The links are there.
To: sasquatch
I'm talking about now, not then.
You won't get any argument from me that the BLM portfolio needs to be opened up and land sold, but so long as Uncle Sugar owns it, Congress, like any landlord, makes the rules. With the subsidy (which I disagree with in principle) comes the conditions.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
If "a guy" doesn't run his cattle the rights are put out for bid. He can't sublet his grazing rights.
To: daylate-dollarshort
I was talking about leasing out grazing rights on his own land, not subletting.
To: Bodacious
ANWR caribou tastes like Mexican spotted owl- delicious !
To: daylate-dollarshort; Bodacious
Thanks for the help. I had done a search on AP, where the posted story said it originated from, and also a google search and several other news sits, but not on google news. I find another source for the same event (which is fine, I can use it), but not the one posted. It's only polite to provide a link to a story that you post.
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posted on
11/26/2002 8:15:49 AM PST
by
.38sw
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