[SierraWasp]

"- the desert tortoise and a plant called the Lane Mountain milkvetch."

The CA Native Plant Society has been "planting" seeds on properties they want to stop human ownership and activity on! It is strongly suspected that government flunkies have been lending a helping hand. I'm just waiting for the proof to break in the Washington Times like the hairy lynx article, cause I KNOW it will NEVER appear in the Washington Post!!!

[Helix]

Another tactic is to try for a fast state or national endangered species listing.

[Carry_Okie]

There already is just such a case in the docket. Don Fife caught the Park Service red handed. Don wanted to mine the parcel for medical grade calcium carbonate. The RICOnuts caught him up in a dispute over "endangered" loco weed. He discovered a memo requesting the Joshua Tree native plant nursery to deliver loco weed seeds for planting on his land. Ironically (and characteristically), loco weed would grow BETTER were he allowed to disturb the surface and start mining.

Turns out that there were competing mines that didn't want him to start. Both are going great guns. Both are owned by foreign multinationals.

[rface]

where are they getting the seeds? Any details on this activity?