Posted on 08/18/2014 9:14:39 AM PDT by george76
More than a half-million acres of land across nine Western states is being proposed for designation as critical habitat for the yellow-billed cuckoo.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 546,335 acres of critical habitat is up for listing in 80 separate units in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. The bird is a neotropical migrant that winters in South America and nests along rivers and streams in western North America.
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The Service is seeking information concerning the western yellow-billed cuckoo’s biology and habitat, threats to the species and current efforts to protect the bird. The Service also seeks information on the incremental economic effects of the proposed critical habitat designation
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I’ve never heard of this cuckoo, but I’m reasonably sure that most, if not all, live in the fracking zones.
Why does Barbara Boxer need such a big playpen?
if not the will be relocated
I thought the Western Cuckoo was Jerry Brown.
I’ve never heard of this cuckoo, but I’m reasonably sure that most, if not all, live in the fracking zones.”
I thought they all lived in Washington, D.C.
Never heard of it either. Just stop leaving Coco Puffs out and it will go away on its own.
Given that cuckoos are parasitic on other birds I think their extinction should be applauded.
Now if we could only kill off cowbirds.
I assume Mexico is exempt.
If these people honestly believed in “Evolution”, they would stop trying to prevent it. Evolution REQUIRES “survival of the fittest”!
I gather that modern “environmentalism” is a kind of punishment inflicted on us humans by our un-natural tendency to feel compassion for life’s “losers”.
Unanswered: how much of that kind of “compassion” can we actually afford?
How many “endangered species” birds are roasted by solar farms and chopped by windmills?
-Funny how rare animals are never found east of the Appalachians.
A devil is said to haunt the wooded Pine Barren of southern New Jersey. Dubbed the Jersey Devil, it has never been photographed or captured.
Most accounts suggest that the creature has a horse-like face with antlers or horns sprouting from the top of its head. It walks on two legs, ending with cloven hooves or pig’s feet. The overall body shape resembles a kangaroo, though it also has wings like a bat.
They are “seeking information” to what? They want to see how many laws they can straddle law-abiding citizens with.
BTTT.
Hmm, the Blair Witch is supposed to live just outside the D.C. suburbs.
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