Posted on 07/09/2008 1:23:33 PM PDT by george76
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it has removed the Preble's meadow jumping mouse populations in Wyoming from protection under the Endangered Species Act.
The service said it is also amended the listing for Preble's to indicate the subspecies remains threatened in the Colorado portion of its range.
"For Colorado basically nothing changes,"
A new management plant with a new critical habitat map will be developed by 2010...
The determination is based on a better understanding of the distribution of and threats to Preble's meadow jumping mouse populations in Wyoming and Colorado
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
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jumping mouse?
Preble’s meadow jumping mouse
/johnny
Go to Monument and see the interchange onto and off of I-25 which was engineered at great expense to avoid the Preble’s habitat. It’s a joke.
I step on those when I see them....
Those little critters inhabited the walls of my parents’ house (the house is in a big field) every winter. Some would die in the walls. My dad battled them every year. Good thing they weren’t endanged then or my dad would be a felon.
Thanks George... but that mouse is not jumping...
These ESA Sierra Club eco’s love to find a mouse.
They stop farmers from farming.
Liberals cry when the hantivirus and plague carrying packets are removed.
Still not jumping...
I would imagine the cayotes and bobcats in Wy are elated while those in CO are deeply saddened.
When I was 13 yrs old, in 1973, my cousin’s husband was in college studying mammalogy(the study of mammals). His dissertation was on this particular mouse. He took a trip out through the west driving and camping from Indiana to California, then up into Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon Terr., and Alaska via the Alaska Marine Highway. We then cam back a similar route, except through Alberta, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and back home. It was a 3 month trip and a trip of a lifetime for me. I went with him and my cousin and their young kids to help set traps and clean and work on the mice to get them ready for study. After they were cleaned and dried out we mailed them, skulls and bodies, back to his college at Terre Haute(ISU) in dry ice. He was studying the habitat and range of the “Zapus Hudsonius”, plus what they ate.
BREAK OUT THE d-con.
Thanks man...
The idiots wanting to protect them have them running around in their heads!
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