[Mastador1]

These critters apparently managed to return from the verge of extinction without government intervention. Are they allowed to do this?

Are you kidding? What do you call the government halting private industry, the use of private land by its owners and the confiscation of private land to protect a basically useless creature?

I want the Gaia worshipers to show exact how different the eco system was with and without this rat and how it was worth all the money and disruption of private property owners.

[centurion316]

What you describe has nothing to do with Kangaroo Rats, the government was using them to harass people who were interfering with their political scheme. They clearly weren’t looking for the little critters, they haven’t been seen since 1967.

[Hugin]

Are you kidding? What do you call the government halting private industry, the use of private land by its owners and the confiscation of private land to protect a basically useless creature?

They did that in Mexico?

[hinckley buzzard]

Good luck. If this rat had indeed become extinct, some other varmint would have filled the ecological niche and nature would have moved on without noticing.All the grad students in the world could not have shown otherwise.