[B4Ranch]

Sometimes I feel that I'm preaching to the choir by posting this on FR.com.

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[B4Ranch]

What does this do to your confidence in our court system?

[rface]

another example of how liberal enviro-activists are losing their credibility.

[Ditter]

Prairie dogs are protected? Ft. Worth had a prairie dog town in between two freeways in the middle of town. I was told the prairie dogs were wiped out by the city of F.W. Maybe some one from F.W. could comment & tell us what happened to the prairie dogs.

[Williams]

Question number one is what is all this concern about prairie dogs? Brings to mind the zillions of nonmigratory Canada Geese. They are a pestilence polluting waterways. Activists were all over the place stopping them from being hunted. Now the federal government hopes the states will kill one third of them.

[shawnlaw]

Administrative law judges are Article II judges, meaning that they are appointed at the discretion of the executive branch, not the judicial branch. They are almost always executive careerists and therefore would be more likely to hold in the agencies favor...a kind of home-court advantage. At least with the Article III courts, there is some degree of independance expected.

[Ben Ficklin]

Dogs of the Prairie

[RJS1950]

Hell, when I was stationed in North Dakota, the Dak Rats as they were locally known were all over the place, and in the spring these critters became amourous and would run out into the middle of a street/road/highway and watch as the oncoming vehicles turned them into what was known as "road carpet". Indeed there were enough of them to cover the road in a fur carpet. The point is, there are millions of these pests all over the plains and west. I alone have probably bagged a thousand with my vehicle alone. What a crock.

[Diddle E. Squat]

What you are doing is giving us more articles to save or bookmark and later use as references and examples. Keep up the good work, it does pay dividends.

[Mat_Helm]

All your prarie dogs is belong to us

Make your time now dogs!

[Ford Fairlane]

Prarie Dogs??

I must have killed hundreds of them. Since when are they protected?

[farmfriend]

Sometimes I feel that I'm preaching to the choir by posting this on FR.com.

I find it an easy way to do research. Most everybody knows to flag me for articles like this and I pass them on to our news editor. So even if you are just telling people who agree with you, think of it as adding books to the library.

[editor-surveyor]

"Sometimes I feel that I'm preaching to the choir by posting this on FR.com."

Alright choir, turn to page 346 in your hymnals...

[Madame Dufarge]

Instead, the FWS relied on its employees’ testimony that the elusive prairie dogs whose presence on Drake’s land was never filmed and whose habitat there was never found, had disappeared. They must be dead, killed by Drake’s actions.

And did they notice there were no dinosaurs or Venusians there either?

This guy could be a serial killer!

[FreeInWV]

Please post directions to the dogtown. If I can't make it there these guys will. They have a slight prairie dog obsession. They got the fever!

Here is a pic of a little toy of mine. Note the Pdog target.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

There is legislation in the House (HR2829 & HR 3705) that is aimed at reforming the Endangered Species Act. The House "Resource" Committee held some hearings on the legislation--February in Nebraska, and March in D.C. There is quite a bit of info there in the record. The legislation seeks to put science into the enforcement of the ESA and take the political science out of it. There is even mention of a "Science Court," an interesting and frightening concept. It would be nice if we could generate enough interest in reforming the ESA.

[VOA]

They must be dead, killed by Drake’s actions.
Remarkably, the ALJ upheld Drake’s fine because these were federal employees who had
no reason to lie and must, therefore, be believed. Drake appealed the decision.

Miscarriage of justice, even if there might have been one or two prairie dogs on his property.

In the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma, there was a sizeable prarie dog community.
My friends and I would often stop by to see the sociable little creatures when
on our way to hike the Wichita Mountains and to see the buffalo and long-horn cattle
in the area.

One year an exceptionally heavy rainstorm simply destoyed the settlement of
prarie dogs. I don't think it even had recoverd a year or two later.

I guess that being an Okies I can paraphrase Will Rogers:

"Stuff happens to prarie dogs."
And it ain't because of human actions!!!

[R. Scott]

Hi! We're from the Government, and we're here to help you.

[JudyB1938]

It's all part of the plan to confiscate land in order to corral people into cities, with corridors in between. I used to have a map of it, but I lost it in an old computer that crashed.