Planting Evidence? The discovery of a protected herb sparks accusations of sabotage

AP via The Winston-Salem Journal ^ | 07/19/2006 | Unknown

[Hegemony Cricket]

Time for some Round-Up, I'd guess...

[Carry_Okie]

Well, I mean somebody in the legislature get a clue and pass a law to allow it. Cheese!

BZZZZT! Wrongo! They econuts have a TREATY with decades of Federal case law cooked up by activist attorneys and complicit bureaucrats to back it up.

CITES specifies that there is to be no trading in any endangered species. Period. Ain't it fun?

They way my book cracks that little conundrum is that it proposes people trade in uses of offsetting processes that constitute habitat. Build the right spot and keep it free of weeds and seed is so mobile, you have only to wait.

[Froufrou]

Am I missing something? Who in their right mind would build in a wetlands?!

Of course, there's a lot to be said for choice homesites in CA [/home falling off cliff in mudslide...]

[Carry_Okie]

Am I missing something? Who in their right mind would build in a wetlands?!

What these people are calling a "wetland" is a dip in the dirt with a seasonal mud hole.

[Minn]

Shoot
Shovel
Shut up.

"Daddy, mommy looks cold."
"Shut up and keep digging."

[sully777]

It is a temporary wetland, like runoff after a storm.

BTW, most of Florida is drained wetlands, and the rest is just ocean

[HiTech RedNeck]

Is the book's paper made from endangered trees? [d&r]

[HawaiianGecko]

The only endangered species on this planet are people with common sense.

 

[Disambiguator]

Bob Evans, a 72-year-old retired elementary-school principal Marxist

Fixed.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Same story with the Nene(sp) goose of Hawaii. My step dad raised them and sold them here in CONUS(creating more of them)and was hassled non stop by the feds until he just quit doing it, and sold them all to someone else.

[Carry_Okie]

Is the book's paper made from endangered trees? [d&r]

Is that a rhetorical question? Hell if I know.

[IronJack]

Didn't this same thing happen with the Preeble's Meadow Jumping Mouse in Colorado? It turns out that there is no such animal; it's just a brown field mouse, and it's not native to the area anyway.

I may be confusing that with the Spotted Owl or the Snail Darter. These manufactured environmental "crises" all melt into one after a while ...

[Carry_Okie]

Didn't this same thing happen with the Preeble's Meadow Jumping Mouse in Colorado?

No, this is more analogous to the lynx hair. Preeble's mouse was merely misidentified and it took them a bajillion years to admit it.

[CholeraJoe]

The unarmored, three pronged stickleback (a fish) paralyzed the USAF base at Vandenberg for years. Who gives a rat's a$$ about a 3 inch fish that doesn't even taste good when fried?

Um...not that I ever did that.

[oxcart]

Thanks

[oxcart]

Come on come clean...baked or broiled?

[Froufrou]

Gotcha. We have a place in Rockport and because we're only 7 feet above sea level we have to carry FEMA insurance...never try to argue "wind driven rain" with a gubmint man...

[gcruse]

"Stopping construction of a major development on private property ought to be prohibited unless fair compensation is paid by the government."

But make sure the government uses its own money, not mine. /sarc

[KTM rider]

This is a tactic that environmentalists have been using for decades, usually it is a fish or frog. In our local OHV area it was an indian artifact. The archeological tactic is only temporary until they get a grant and do a five year study

[CholeraJoe]

Sushi.