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Hundreds of plants, animals in line for federal endangered species protection
ap ^ | September 29, 2011

Posted on 09/29/2011 8:43:35 AM PDT by george76

The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.

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With a Friday deadline to act on more than 700 pending cases, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service already has issued decisions advancing more than 500 species toward potential new protections under the Endangered Species Act...

Patrick Parenteau, an environmental lawprofessor at the University of Vermont. "They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now. This is the largest number of listing actions we've seen in a very long time, in decades."

Also among species that advanced for further consideration are 35 snails from Nevada's Great Basin, 82 crawfish from the Southeast, 99 Hawaiian plants and a motley cast of butterflies, birds, fish, beetles, frogs, lizards, mussels and more from every corner of the country.

Some have languished for decades on a "candidate list" of species the government says warrant protection but that it lacks the resources to help.

The flurry of recent action could help revive Obama's standing among wildlife advocates upset over the administration's support for taking gray wolves off the endangered list in the Northern Rockies and Upper Great Lakes, among other issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at ravallirepublic.com ...


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1 posted on 09/29/2011 8:43:41 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

The tiniest snail will make a 10 million dollar project cost 40 million. Got to clear those snails. Our hard earned tax dollars at work. Obama has got to go. Now.


2 posted on 09/29/2011 8:47:02 AM PDT by Lilly Rose
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To: jazusamo; girlangler; Flycatcher; GladesGuru; B4Ranch; tubebender; Grampa Dave; Seadog Bytes; ...

Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity and New Mexico-based WildEarth Guardians are here to help.

/s


3 posted on 09/29/2011 8:48:34 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

“They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now.”

Oh I will just bet they are! Especially since they know the Lame One is going to lose in the next election.

There is only ONE cure- Abolish the EPA; Repeal the ESA; return ALL “federally owned” land to the states. And we had better do it soon.


4 posted on 09/29/2011 8:48:56 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: george76

Evil, pure evil.


5 posted on 09/29/2011 8:49:53 AM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: george76

Thank you Dicky Nixon for that and the EPA, worse accomplishments besides ping pong.


6 posted on 09/29/2011 8:50:50 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: george76

Outstanding! More millstones around the neck of our economy.


7 posted on 09/29/2011 8:52:00 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: 13Sisters76

The best idea would be to give it to the people. This is our land. Governments including the states and soem cities have possession of too much of our land.


8 posted on 09/29/2011 8:52:20 AM PDT by Lilly Rose
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To: steelyourfaith

Ping.


9 posted on 09/29/2011 8:54:37 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: george76

Cass Sunsteen...


10 posted on 09/29/2011 8:56:15 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: george76

I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of jobs this caper by Obama and his appointed thugs will cost the people of our country? This is criminal!


11 posted on 09/29/2011 8:57:56 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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” Cass Sunsteen... “

We can only wish that he/she/it was an endangered species....


12 posted on 09/29/2011 8:58:41 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Lilly Rose
The best idea would be to give it to the people. This is our land. Governments including the states and soem cities have possession of too much of our land.

Property taxes (government rent) and emanate domain have already stolen away our right to own property. They charge us every year for our right to live on it, and they can take it away from us at any time. The politicians control it ALL.
This is how far our country has fallen.

13 posted on 09/29/2011 8:58:49 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: george76

The EPA is our KGB.

Tear down the EPA brick by brick, swivel chair by swivel chair, leftard scumbag by leftard scumbag.


14 posted on 09/29/2011 9:00:02 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: george76

99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.

99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.

99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.


15 posted on 09/29/2011 9:01:59 AM PDT by samtheman (Palin. In your heart you know she's right.)
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To: jazusamo

Then his pals can get EPA waivers after they donate enough campaign cash


16 posted on 09/29/2011 9:02:43 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Army Air Corps; golux; proud_yank; Bockscar; grey_whiskers; WL-law; IrishCatholic; Whenifhow; ...
Thanx for the ping AAC !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

17 posted on 09/29/2011 9:03:01 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: 13Sisters76
There is only ONE cure- Abolish the EPA; Repeal the [ESA] EPA; return ALL “federally owned” land to the states. And we had better do it soon.

AMEN!.....the Dept. of Education also!

18 posted on 09/29/2011 9:09:46 AM PDT by yoe
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To: concerned about politics

It’s high time we fight back before the leftists make it much worse. The lefties parade around the myth that eminent domain is for the greater good, but if they could they’d take the land with my house on it and build a hundred foot tall statue of their hero Obama. The leftists fritter away money like it is water.


19 posted on 09/29/2011 9:10:59 AM PDT by Lilly Rose
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To: george76

so when I stopped last evening for that slow-moving gopher tortoise crossing the road I missed my last chance?


20 posted on 09/29/2011 9:12:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
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