Posted on 10/10/2011 9:51:26 AM PDT by 92nina
The United States has a long history of working to protect species from extinction. In 1939, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) was created for this purpose, and in 1973 the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed to augment its power. Protecting species naturally puts the government at odds with landowners, however. The ESA effectively allows the government to determine how land can be used, even if it is on private land. As current estimates put the percentage of endangered species on private land at 90%, this conflict is somewhat inevitable. This became evident even as far back as 1978, when the American Farm Bureau voiced concerns that the ESA would give the federal government the ability to prefer the health of a species over the livelihood of a citizen.
One example of this occurred in 1990, when the spotted owl was listed as an endangered species. The government argued that the timber industry was killing its natural habitat, wiping out the species. After its listing, U.S. timber industry revenues decreased by nearly 90%, putting many out of business. Further researched revealed that the timber industry was not at fault; the real issue was the barred owl, who was eating all of the spotted owl’s natural food. Nonetheless, the damage to the timber industry remained.
Obama has recently paved the way for many similar abuses of the ESA by forcing the USFWS to list many new species under the ESA in the name of “clearing the backlog of cases.” Beginning in 2000, environmental groups began to flood the USFWS with requests for new additions to the ESA. Groups like the WildEarth Guardians have filed for over 1,230 plants and animals to be added to the list since 2007. Obama has agreed to analyze each and every request beginning May...
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Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious
One little tidbit I rememeber is that it cost $50,000 to save one Californian Condor. Ridiculous!!
Assuming (actually, praying to God) that sanity will soon return to American government, the “Endangered Species Act” is only one of hundreds, if not thousands, of crappy laws that need to fall by the wayside.
Whenever politicians have so little to do that they engage in the kind of minutiae evidenced by the Endangered Species Act, it’s time for Congress to adjourn and for the Congresscritters to go home and get REAL jobs!!
(BTW, I expect the Congress to put itself on the Endangered Species Act any day now!)
Assuming (actually, praying to God) that sanity will soon return to American government, the “Endangered Species Act” is only one of hundreds, if not thousands, of crappy laws that need to fall by the wayside.
Whenever politicians have so little to do that they engage in the kind of minutiae evidenced by the Endangered Species Act, it’s time for Congress to adjourn and for the Congresscritters to go home and get REAL jobs!!
(BTW, I expect the Congress to put itself on the Endangered Species Act any day now!)
Assuming (actually, praying to God) that sanity will soon return to American government, the “Endangered Species Act” is only one of hundreds, if not thousands, of crappy laws that need to fall by the wayside.
Whenever politicians have so little to do that they engage in the kind of minutiae evidenced by the Endangered Species Act, it’s time for Congress to adjourn and for the Congresscritters to go home and get REAL jobs!!
(BTW, I expect the Congress to put itself on the Endangered Species Act any day now!)
1 - 2 - 3 Strikes and you’re out. You gotta fix that sticky key!
This is how the government grows. When the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed in 1973, everybody knew that it was for animals like the Bald Eagle and others that were visibly endangered. The problem is that it casts such a wide net that it is a prime tool of the Luddite community to shut down all development. I have no doubt that there are or will be claims to protect lichens and amoebas if they help stop something that someone does not want to be built or developed. Good intentions and all that ...
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Even on the simpsons they called it the, “reversal of freedoms act.”
“In 1939, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) was created for this purpose, and in 1973 the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed to augment its power.”
No mention of that treaty (whose name in not easy to remember and is not explicitly in your links here) under which provisions empowered the ESA’s provisions. A search of the article from which this thread starts does not mention treaty law either.
I’d imagine they could gain something from your collection of facts and evidence.
I'm only half joking here. If I had anything to say about it, James Hanson had best flee the country. I want him in jail, along with a host of others.
I'd hire Sheriff Joe as my sergeant at arms.
The year after the creation of the fish and wildlife service the following treaty was signed and ratified.
CONVENTION ON NATURE PROTECTION AND WILD LIFE PRESERVATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Prior to the signing of this treaty, the federal government could not legitimately override property rights guaranteed under our US Constitution. They derived the power to pass the ESA and enforce it from the auspices of this treaty.
Carry_okie might be prevailed upon to provide you and Mr. Wahlen with more details.
The first three articles on the Wildergarten.com Articles Page go into detail as to how the modern regulatory system gained its "legal" authority, its funding, and evolved from there.
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