Posted on 12/29/2009 11:18:32 AM PST by DogByte6RER
We have Gopher Tortoise here in Florida. That’ll cost you a minimum of $800 just to pay for the spot to relocate them to. That doesn’t include the permitting to get permission to move them off your own private property. Forget that they dig large burrows that can swallow a zero-turn mower rear tire if one isn’t paying close enough attention. Forget that any animal that you place in pasture with Gopher burrows could easily step in one and break a leg.
Even the monetary/energy “genius” T. Bone(sic) Pickins-after pushing windmills-earlier this year started trying to sell his stockpile of them.
I think he is eating them.
It seems the greens love windmills, but hate having the infrastructure installed to get the juice in use.
Might disturb spotted owls, turtles and Pelosi’s rats.
Check you wallet for some real pain...that's where they are aiming.
These would be the same tortoises that were purtnear extinct and we had to stop running the Barstow to Vegas race, now they have a population density that is at saturation?
Did you read the article?
Whoops. But I don’t see how this still doesn’t show a tremendous waste of money due to government regulation. Agreed?
Compounding that problem is that our superiors in Washington shut down all the horse slaughterhouses in the country because we can't treat horses like livestock, after all.
Near where I live there is a well-to-do area of large estates and large herds of whitetail deer. The locals went insane at the idea of controlled bow hunting by bloodthirsty Bambi killers. They passed and ordinance and started trapping the deer and moving them to "rural" areas that had their own deer overpopulation problems.
Bottom line, the conservation department tracked some of the deer, and as far as they know not a single one ever survived.
It would be sort of like somebody trapping you in a box, transporting you five hundred miles from home, and releasing you in a remote location.
The important thing is the locals got to feel good about never letting the deer be harvested humanely and put to good use as human food. They can be proud of the fact that they trapped them in a little box, put them through the terrifying ordeal of being transported hundreds of miles and being released in a territory where they did not know how or where to find little things like food and water.
It doesn't matter how they suffered. The important thing is they weren't murdered.
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