Posted on 04/13/2015 10:38:03 PM PDT by Nachum
I don't think they see it as cutting their owns throats; that would be suicidal.
I think they see it as cutting OUR throats, with is merely a part of their agenda.
Remember: They hate America and the institutions, norms, and values that make her great. Only by destroying the old ways can they usher in their new ones.
Thus, what they seek, in the immediate term, is not change, but rather destruction.
I used to live in CA and followed this issue.
It was my understanding that the smelt that gives the EPA such groinal tumescence is not the same smelt that is indigenous to the delta.
It is a different type of smelt that was introduced much later by the white man as a bait fish, on accident.
Incorrect. From Wikipedia:
You will note the name Hypomesus transpacificus. That is because they are common on the other side of the Pacific Ocean... but not so much here. As a result, the academic whoredom er "community" has been going through all sorts of "evolutionary biology" to explain why they are native here. Gobalet's "find" has given them the breathing space they wanted.
KENNETH W. GOBALET1 Department of Biology, California State University, Bakersfield, CA 93311, USA
ABSTRACT: The aquatic ecosystems of California were dramatically altered by humans over the past 150 years. The introduction of numerous exotic fish species has made most native freshwater ecosystems of the Central Valley unrecognizable with the replacement of native endemics by alien species. Credible fisheries surveys often postdated environmental alteration and make it difficult to know what the natural ecosystems were like. Because of these types of problems, habitat and faunal restoration projects may depend on intuitive guesswork. In this paper I demonstrate the value of the archaeological record in helping to establish which fish species inhabited the waterways of California before late-Holocene habitat alterations. Case studies include data from archaeological sites on Marsh Creek in Contra Costa County, Putah Creek in Yolo County and an encouraging comparison of ichthyological survey records with the archaeological record of sites beside Cache Creek in Yolo County and Clear Lake in Lake County, California. The archaeological record is a valuable and potentially accurate resource that can be used to document the native fishes that existed prior to European contact.
Key words: California freshwater fishes, delta smelt, hardhead, restoration, Cache Creek, Clear Lake, Marsh Creek, Putah Creek
TRANSACTIONS OF THE WESTERN SECTION OF THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY 40:107-113
Just back from the river. Will call once settled.
D.
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