Gov’t Posts 61 New Federal Regs, Including 500-Page Rule to Protect “Critical Habitat” of Flycatcher

Cybercast News Service ^ | January 4, 2013 | Penny Starr

[Olog-hai]

The federal government posted 61 new regulations in the Federal Register on Friday, including the Department of Interior’s 500-page document outlining a new rule to protect the southwestern willow flycatcher’s “critical habitat” in six states.

That small insect-eating bird’s habitat covers 1,227 miles of streams and 208,973 acres in California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, on “federal, state, tribal and private lands.” …

[txrefugee]

This avalanche of insane new regulations should be a major talking point for the conservative media and the TEA Party members of the House and Senate. Americans will not hear about this federal power grab from the Obama media.

[opentalk]

Agenda 21 creep on property rights

[Vaduz]

To be sure the willow flycatcher needs to be protected they must be tasted first.

[The Great RJ]

I wonder how many of these endangered birds get chopped up in wind turbines each year?

[opentalk]

From article:

-Manage grazing livestock and other wildlife that could damage the habitat
-Limit “recreational impact”

UN Agenda 21 goal ...will limit where the public is allow. Many wilderness areas will be made off limits

[ken in texas]

500 pages? That's ridiculous.

I'd like to take computer technology away from those that write the laws. It's far too easy to just copy / paste language that may or may not be pertinent from one document to another.

If it can't be written by hand on two pages of legal sized paper they're making it too complicated.

[palmer]

I downloaded the text version:
19157 175168 1218311 flycatcher.txt
(number of lines, words, chars)

The word "critical" was used 1613 times. Contains the phrase "an increase in global average sea level" (flycatchers live on the beach??) Uses of the phrase "climate change":
...such as climate change. Climate change is a long-term shift in the....
... defines climate change as, ``a change in the state of the climate that....
... Projections of climate change globally and for broad regions ....
... assumptions and other parameters used in climate change models, the ....
... habitats. The vulnerability of a species to climate change impacts is a ....
... stressors. We recognize that future climate change may present a ....
... Exactly how climate change will affect precipitation in the ....
... insight into how climate change may affect flycatchers and flycatcher ....
... Comment (73): The IPCC models of climate change are neither ....
... to follow and assess the science behind climate change and update our ....
... climate change on flycatcher habitat included in the proposed rule. If ....
... climate change will cause increased warming, increasingly frequent warm ....
... the potential effects of climate change to the flycatcher contradicts ....
... various effects of climate change states that these actions may present ....
... greenhouse gas emissions and climate change impacts that may be caused ....
...

[Rappini]

I haven’t seen any Fed Reg on that Coyote that eat a rabbit in my back yard.

[Gritty]

Fedzilla

is

so

totally

dysfunctional

[az_gila]

I think this guy will do more to lower the flycatcher population than humans -

Taken on our bird feeder support in the back yard.