Posted on 05/08/2009 9:18:10 AM PDT by pissant
The Obama administration has reversed a Bush administration decision and is proposing to restrict development on 74,000 acres in Sonoma County that is habitat for the endangered California tiger salamander.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service settled a lawsuit this week by an environmental group challenging its decision in 2005, under President George W. Bush, to withdraw the designation of land on the Santa Rosa Plain as critical habitat for the rare amphibian.
The area covers farmland, housing and open space from Windsor in the north to Skillman Road northwest of Petaluma.
Under the agency's proposal, any development that might harm the salamander or its habitat would have to be cleared with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Federal officials could require developers to take protective measures or make offsetting investments in nearby land set aside to protect the species.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
it’s land confiscation sure, and it’s also just another attack on the economy
Land confiscation is done to keep more and more people in the city so they can be controlled. People living in the country are too independent and the Feds don’t like it. That’s why, as in states like Oregon, the Feds own about 80% of the state.
Friggin’ pests!
They used to get into my house in Florida.
Does the 10th Amendment pre empt ANY EPA Federal authority over private property use ?
On the Surface...EPA can rule on Federal Land but I would think the state would have sole authority on this one.
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