Posted on 07/10/2010 5:45:55 AM PDT by goron
Habitat protection for the endangered arroyo toad, which lives along slow-moving pools and sandy streams in Southern California, would cost $789 million over 25 years, according to a new analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Most of the costs are expected to occur in new development, primarily in San Diego County, the study shows. The analysis also considered losses from grazing, mining, road construction and utility projects, and possible prices increases for water customers.
The financial study was required as part of the agency's proposed designation of 112,765 acres as critical habitat for the small, buff-colored toad with dark-spotted, warty skin.
(Excerpt) Read more at pe.com ...
How many of these toads are being killed and their habitat being destroyed by the thousands of illegals who are trampling through this area?
Correct. Did my original post lack clarity?
Multiply this nonsense by the number of species that go onto the endangered list or disappear through natural causes and evolution and the cost to the economy is enormus.
Ah, but the alternative to letting Nature take its course with this ffin’ toad is DOOM.
If we didn’t have Congress full of treasonous RINOs, they could have fixed the endangered species act so that it only protected full species, consistent with the original “Noah’s Ark” intent. Of course, that would not stop the biologists from pulling their little games. In 1998 Bufo microscaphus was split into two species, Bufo californicus, and B. microscaphus. Presto, an endangered species!
IMHO, the only principled way to define species is whether the two members can produce fertile offspring; the rest is political science. A really competent Congress would put that species definition in the statute, so no group could be listed unless it were a true species.
I misunderstood.
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