Click on source URL link to see how media coverage of this hoax is expanding. Also how 15 members of Congress have asked the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior for a thorough investigation.
This incident lengthens the shadow over all government and green groups' analysis of endangered species and the resulting restrictions placed on human activity in rural areas.
An article in my local paper today said the two state biologists involved in the submission of samples would be barred from further research work; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not planning to discipline the five federal biologists involved and will not release their names. Once again, those working for the federal government are not held accountable.