Has ANYONE really confirmed that the Desert Turtle in question is really endangered???
I mean, it would be great to be able to, without ANY ambiguity, be able to laugh in the face of anyone that brings up this issue, if it turns out to be false...
Take it completely off the table and get folks to concentrate on the real problem here...
Someone should compile a list of all the instances of FISH, TORTOISE, BIRDS, ETC., the gubmint has used to justify seizing other people’s land. There is surely a pattern of creating an endangered animal scenario as justification for seizing land.
One of the earlier threads noted that the Feds had in fact been destroying these turtles, because there was now too many.
Also mentioned a new study that the reason the turtles were dying was a virus that the turtles not exposed to cow patties could not fight off.
The turtles that had access to cow patties had the protein they needed to fight off the virus and did better than the others lacking this nutritional source.
I did not bookmark the threads.