Posted on 08/27/2011 8:46:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The nearly yearlong drought has been tough on the endangered Barton Springs salamander, so much so that city officials say survival prospects have notably diminished for the unofficial mascot of Austin environmentalism.
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Don’t tell Pelosi this. She’ll cut off what little water the ranchers have so the little fish can survive.
Isn’t that how natural selection is supposed to work? Why doesn’t anyone ask environmentalists why they don’t “believe in Science”?
Being on the east coast, you still have enough to drink?
Ouch!
Good shot.
There is a lot of wild (and not-so-wild) life endangered in this drought.
It is getting scary Midland/Odessa. We are on indoor use only now because a water pipe broke yesterday. Frankly, with another La Nina on the way, they need to stop all outdoor watering or we literally may have all reservoirs dried up before they finish building a pipeline for underground water next December.
lol, The prissies in Austin have been yapping about this salamander since I moved to town in 1963. They’ve been trying to shut down the city’s premiere spring fed fresh running water swimming hole to protect the obnoxious little creatures ever since. The blasted salamanders have the whole of Lake Austin to live in just a few yards down stream, and of course the many little pools upstream.
The majority of these prissies who don’t want you swimming in the water, however, do want you to be able to sunbathe naked in all your glory beside it.
The commies run Austin, and they do it with typical lack of logic or consequences. That’s why the traffic is so bad it takes two and up to three hours to traverse the place in cars that go 120 mph in two lane cross streets instead of a sensible cross town traffic plan. And it’s the reason Austin still basically lives in segregation, and the city sprawl is going the wrong direction. Plus they’ve lost the many opportunities for new industrial plants that would hire their population of the many unskilled.
The place is literally crawling with froots and nuts politicians.
So far, only 1.9 million species have been found. Recent discoveries have been small and weird: a psychedelic frogfish, a lizard the size of a dime and even a blind hairy mini-lobster at the bottom of the ocean.
"We are really fairly ignorant of the complexity and colourfulness of this amazing planet," said the study's co-author, Boris Worm, a biology professor at Canada's Dalhousie University. "We need to expose more people to those wonders. It really makes you feel differently about this place we inhabit."
While some scientists and others may question why we need to know the number of species, others say it's important.
There are potential benefits from these undiscovered species, which need to be found before they disappear from the planet, said famed Harvard biologist Edward O Wilson, who was not part of this study. Some of modern medicine comes from unusual plants and animals............."
This is a load. Anyone who has ever lived in the desert during the “monsoon season” knows that.
Austin: [Texas Education Agency] TEA to lay off 178 workers [Thousands of pink slips for state workers]
Isn’t this just n example of evolution and survival of the fittest??
If one believes in the theory of evolution, then to actually label a species as endangered goes against one’s primary beliefs.
Give any you find the size 12 test.
Never mind.
Kewl...right now we have a whole building of educational experts that are supposed to be finding new pathways of learning for our students. What have they been doing? Running around policing our schools for the feds political correctness and stemming any curriculum or methodology not approved by the feds. Evidently we have 178 too many of them not doing their real job.
They’ve also had this hike and bike plan for as long as I can remember also. And yet they have absolutely no cross-traffic plan for vehicles, where thousands of government workers pile into the city from the urban sprawl that can’t even get access to the north and south freeways they’re so crowded. I commuted there for 22 years and had to map myself a route on backstreets to get to downtown.
Finally that became clogged and I had to leave home at 5:00 am just hit Austin by 7:00 am before peak traffic. Thank goodness it was during the time they allowed flex time and I could start work at 7 and get off a 4.
Damn! Just damn.
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