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Feds say protecting endangered toad could cost $789 million over 25 years
press enterprise ^ | July 8, 2010 | JANET ZIMMERMAN

Posted on 07/10/2010 5:45:55 AM PDT by goron

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To: goron

How many of these toads are being killed and their habitat being destroyed by the thousands of illegals who are trampling through this area?


21 posted on 07/10/2010 7:27:49 AM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: goron

http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/files/2010/07/ArroyoToadHabitat.jpg


22 posted on 07/10/2010 7:35:43 AM PDT by anglian
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To: dockkiller

Correct. Did my original post lack clarity?


23 posted on 07/10/2010 7:59:24 AM PDT by j.argese (Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
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To: goron

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.


24 posted on 07/10/2010 8:12:03 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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http://www.fws.gov/ventura/newsroom/misc/FinalDraft_EconomicAnalysis_Arroyotoad_2010.pdf


25 posted on 07/10/2010 8:16:43 AM PDT by anglian
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To: bert

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.


26 posted on 07/10/2010 8:40:28 AM PDT by Buchal ("Two wings of the same bird of prey . . .")
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To: j.argese

I misunderstood.


27 posted on 07/10/2010 7:29:40 PM PDT by dockkiller (COME AND TAKE IT.)
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