Administration Plays Chicken with Jobs and Energy
The Obama administration wants to make sure that one certain free-range chicken has an easier time crossing the road.
But opponents gearing up for yet another fight with the environmental lobby see yet another proposal from this Interior Department to foul up the economy and kill jobs — forged in a closed-door agreement.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it is initiating the process to consider listing the lesser prairie-chicken as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
“We are encouraged by current multi-state efforts to conserve the lesser prairie-chicken and its habitat, but more work needs to be done to reverse its decline,” said Dan Ashe, director of Fish and Wildlife. “Similar to what state and federal partners in this region accomplished when the dunes sagebrush lizard was proposed, we must redouble our important work to identify solutions that provide for the long-term conservation of the species and also help working families remain on the land they have stewarded for generations.”
In announcing the move, Fish and Wildlife said it would make the determination “on the best available science,” though the proposal is open for a 90-day public comment period.
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) had a succinct reaction: “Here we go again.”
“Unfortunately, our jobs and our way of life in southern New Mexico continue to come under assault,” said Pearce. “The prairie chicken is yet another example that federal species regulation is not based on science, but rather driven by lawyers for extreme interest groups, like Santa Fe-based WildEarth Guardians, who filed the lawsuit in this case. These groups have filed hundreds of job-killing petitions, often at taxpayer expense, while never having to live with the consequences to the local communities.”
“Listing cannot come soon enough for the lesser prairie-chicken,” said Taylor Jones, endangered species advocate for WildEarth Guardians. “Threats are increasing, the species’ range is contracting, and current conservation efforts are too little, too late to conserve the species.”
“Once found in abundant numbers across much of the five states of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas,” Fish and Wildlife said, “the lesser prairie-chickens’ historical range of native grasslands and prairies has been reduced by an estimated 84 percent.” Only WildEarth Guardians, though, clarifies that this decline has been happening since the 1800s.
“The lesser prairie-chicken will disappear forever without protection of the Endangered Species Act,” said Jay Lininger, an ecologist with the Center for Biological Diversity. “Voluntary measures that preserve a little habitat are convenient for some, but they won’t be effective for the prairie-chicken.”
The chicken was first plucked out of the crop of species potentially needing protection by the ESA in 1998. The state of Colorado has already listed the species as threatened.
DOES ANYONE KNOW IF ”TOILET PAPER” ON THE ENDANGERED LIST…AFTER ALL ITS DIRTY.
And radical revolutionaries couldn’t care less about G-d’s creatures, heck, they hate humans!
But by feigning caring, even to the detriment of human’s and their livelihoods, they ensnare the clueless and those wedded to leftist ideology.
And liars, thieves, revolutionaries too, will do anything to drag the U.S. down to an impoverished hole.
How better to do this, than to make sure that NO innovation, nor human-saving ventures, gets off the ground?
And the ‘save this or that’ bull crap is just part of the same hooey, but with devastating consequences – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/13/the-liar-in-chief-his-many-tall-tells-end-game-purposefully-tearing-the-u-s-from-its-constitutional-roots-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
“lesser prairie chicken?” “Lesser?” How dare they put such a negative label on that bird. Poor thing must be suffering from low self-esteem, we need a government program to work on fostering a better self image for it, and then another program to come up with a better name for the chicken.
After reading this I guess the next thing I should do is to go downstairs and cook some fried chicken.
I don’t live around there and wouldn’t recognize a prairie chicken if it bit me on the posterior.
However, if those birds were suddenly to go completely and mysteriously extinct, and possibly end up in the frying pans of people who know how to dispose of the feathers, there would be no further excuse for the grabbermint to put anybody out of business to “protect” them.
Just sayin’.
How can the lesser prairie chicken be scientifically classidied as a Species, if it can inter-breed, as in :
“…mating in Kansas with the greater prairie-chickens…”
I had the same question about the spotted owl in B Johnson’s related post.
btw, I think PJM needs to start a special page for ALL the regulatory hurdles that come out. You need ECHO!
This kind of stealth strategy is a major reason I stopped trusting the ‘environmental movement’. If they really cared about species protection, they would be spending most of their time and money on the invasive species that threaten America’s forests.
and Keystone Species.
The emblem for said Lesser Prairie Chicken Preserve (located near Roswell) will be of course:
http://www.naderlibrary.com/icouldtellyou.46.htm
In a related area about green energy.
AAA SAYS CERTAIN ETHANOL FUEL CAN DAMAGE CARS, ASKS EPA TO REMOVE FROM PUMPS
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/30/aaa-says-certain-ethanol-fuel-can-damage-cars-asks-epa-to-remove-from-pumps/
Just how many of these chickens are there? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? Let’s say a million.
“The proposed listing also ignores the $50 million in habitat protection activities that states have invested over the past several years for the lesser prairie-chicken and creates a disincentive for future cooperative species recovery.”
That’s fifty dollars bird, pretty expensive eating.
Reading up on these critters it turns out they used to be all over Mexico, but disappeared about 8,000 B.C. I’m guessing this occurred without “oil and gas extraction, herbicides, wildfires and controlled burns, drought, and “habitat fragmentation” from fences and power lines”.
“Help these working families remain on the land they have STEWARDED for generations”?? SAY WHAT??? The word is OWNED, you thief and liar! OWNED. The land belongs to THEM. Take your chickens and get off THEIR property!
How about moving a few of the Chickens to Hawaii. There are many wild chickens there that are doing great, in matter of fact they can’t eliminate them all from the islands even if they wanted to.
Bad idea. Google “rabbits Australia” for an example of how bad.
cheers
eon
Insanity reigns in the US.
When we peer into the universe what do we see? A Cold dark uncaring universe ot looking at the stars a hot devouring universe and another human look like hell invading what we own
This is why the revelation found in God’s word the Bible how God is love bring comfort to the believers how God has a place for you in the afterlife , hell , purgatory or the more eternal a place in heaven
When Noah was told to build an ark for the coming great flood not just the greater prairie-chicken march in the ark but the lesser
Perhaps man can build a little ark for the lesser a national park so lesser not go extinct thanking God for giving USA people all this great land and wisdom to help our children still believe God is love and cares for the small and protects them from the wicked evil ghost of the Nephilim who roam the earth looking for great power and personal glory to control everything that moves until the great mountain burning with fire hits the earth as spoken of in the book of revelation in God’s word the Bible in reading makes all man’s great work seem very small
Or, in what Bones used to call plain, non-Vulcan English,
Environmentalists dream of a world as it was before man existed. Since we stubbornly refuse to somehow miraculously disappear (as in the reprehensible HC series Life After People, aka “The Deep-Ecos’ Wet Dream”), they will do anything they can imagine to render us unable to sustain our society, anywhere and everywhere. In the hope that in doing so, they can do enough damage to trigger a “die-off”, preferably of everyone but themselves.
The fact that they do so while jetting off to Doha to hold endless conferences on why everything we do to “Holy Mother Gaia” is the ultimate evil, while nothing they do is of the slightest consequence, speaks volumes for their conceit, duplicity, and intense hatred of humanity other than their own “perfect” selves.
At what point do we acknowledge that environmentalists do not “Love the Earth” nearly as much as they simply hate the human race?
clear ether
eon
NUT groups like WildEarth Guardians, If they are allowed to run wild, would have the Fed. gov. build a fence around all of the cites on the map today and not allow any of us out side that fence. the court system, must be reformed, so when they sue “us” and lose THEY PAY US FOR THE TROUBLE THEY PUT US TO…….
What happens if we all go out, hunt them down, and eat them before Christmas? If the species is gone, ESA is irrelevant right. I mean, its a chicken. Who cares? I don’t. Neither should the government or anyone else.
You miss the delicious irony in this issue….the LPC is actually more threatened by green energy….WIND TURBINES!! lol
Here’s the solution: the african burying beetle and sage dune lizard are eaten by the LPC; the LPC is then eaten by the black-footed ferret who in turn is consumed by the gray wolf…voila….no more T&E. BHAAAHHHAAHHHAA
Here’s a copy of the U of Oklahoma “conclusion” segment of their LPC study:
Conclusion
“Oklahoma is fortunate to have Lesser Prairie-Chickens and the
prairies and shrublands that support them. However, their range
and numbers have decreased significantly from historical levels
and con tin ue to decline. To survive and reproduce, the LPC needs
large expanses of native prairies and shrublands without trees in
different stages of plant succession. Hopefully, populations of LPC
can be maintained and increased if native plant communities are
restored and the ecosystem drivers of fire and grazing are used
appropriately.LPCs are found almost exclusively on private property and
thus depend on the stewardship of private property owners. Pro-
grams that promote conversion of native prairie to non-native vege-
tation such an introduced forages or trees are not beneficial to the
LPC or other native wildlife. Government and private programs
that encourage restoration and management of native prairies and
shrublands are needed. The LPC is a species that reflects the health
of the Southern Great Plains ecosystem and is at a critical thresh old
for its long-term survival. Okla ho ma and many other central and
western states still have large tracts of land and the op por tu ni ty to
reclaim and restore millions of acres of native plant com mu ni ties
for the LPC and other prairie species. Adequate funding, public
support, competent consultants, and landowner cooperation are
needed to accomplish this goal.”
Draw yer own conclusions from the conclusion!!
The solution is simple! Dedicate all the land to wind turbines and solar panels. Then if the chicken can fly, it will be killed by the turbine blades. If the thing can’t fly, it will be fried by the heat of the panels. No problem!
lmao!