In the local paper here in WA state, there was an AP story about the STILL declining numbers of the spotted owl here in the PacNW.
The EPA just recently declared, “Our bad, it wasn’t the logging that was killing them off, it was their more aggressive cousin, the Barred Owl.”
And they wonder why there are so many AGW ‘deniers’.
The Spotted Owl killed communities all over WA state and OR. Whole towns shut down. Families were made destitute. Thousands lost their jobs.
Then the article ends with the lead on the very last line - they are taking away local EPA power to grant exemptions to species protection orders where people are severely impacted by the action.
So, just to tally the ignorance and arrogance here:
1. Wrong about the science - completely.
2. Others were both right on the science and even more right about the economic impact of the original 1990 order.
3. Now that they know it’s the Barred Owl, they are now out to kill it. No kidding - they are starting to kill them off as an invasive species.
4. Despite the wanton economic and emotional destruction the Spotted Owl order wrought, they are taking away the power of local authorities to suspend other like orders that pose the same severe economic impact.
These clowns remind me of the Brown Shirts - Martin Bormann’s crew - from Germany in the 1930’s. Wrong as hell, but it doesn’t matter - do what we say or asses will sting. (The Germans used to literally beat other German bureaucrats that didn’t fall in line with thin wooden dowels on the ass and back until they did.)
Today, they just trash your career - Menendez comes to mind of late on the Iran treaty debacle. UVA, for just existing, gets hit with a complete BS rape story. Nobody fired at Rolling Stone (you don’t fire people who do what you told them to do in the first place).
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there should be a class-action lawsuit against the feds for all that stuff based on fraud
If there aren’t enough spotted owls we need more owl spotters to spot more owls so we will get more spotted owls.