Biologists rescuing minnow from dry Rio Grande

[BuzzH]

MD4ME,

I have a couple comments, one is your response to the "fanatics" in charge.

The reason for laws like the ESA is so that all species are protected without bias. You seem to think elk are different than silvery minnows on your importance list, a personal bias. Fine, but unfortunately for you, the ESA doesnt differintiate between elk and silvery minnows. It has nothing to do with fanatics in charge, but rather about laws passed by YOUR representatives.

You talk a bunch of BS like biologists just run around acting on their own. They dont, they're following laws enacted by YOUR representatives. They are not wasting money, but rather spending it how YOUR representatives have asked them to.

By the way, YOUR cool .00001 cent/year or less that goes to a biologists salary is money well spent.

Yes, I do think you're worrying about mice. The amount of tax money spent on saving a few fish is meaningless. Further, if they're state biologists in New Mexico, not a single CENT of your tax dollars have been spent on this issue...thusly, you really have nothing to bitch about. I stand corrected, after looking at the article again, they are federal biologists. So, you do have the right to bitch about the .000001% of 1 cent that you paid in federal income tax last year going to net a few minnows.

Funny how you'll praise a jackass thats proposed 87 billion in foreign aid to a country you cant find on a map, running up a defecit YOUR grandchildren will be paying dearly for, yet whine about a few hundred dollars to net a few fish.

Unbelievable.

 

[Wyodeerhunter]

I believe we should give an effort to save every species whether we can hunt it or not. And if the effort to save that animal works than great, but if it doesn't than at least we tried and maybe it wasn't ment to be saved. Maybe I'm being a little bias because I like minnows but I hope they make it.

 

[Ithaca 37]

Wyo, thanks. It's good to know somebody around here has some sense.

I think we should keep in mind that the ESA was a Nixon accomplishment. Maybe those on this board that don't understand the ESA could benefit from having a third grader read and explain this to them:

"In the words of President Nixon, "Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed."


http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/03/15/ed.col.onrc.0315.html

"In 1973, a Republican president, Richard Nixon, signed the Endangered Species Act into law. The act declared - for the first time - that we would not ignore the extinction of America's natural legacy.

Regrettably, today's Republican Party, dominated by anti-environmental politicians backed by powerful development interests, is relentlessly working to disassemble the act, one piece at a time........................The Endangered Species Act has been a Noah's ark for hundreds of plant and animal communities. Oregonians should demand that their congressional delegation supports efforts to recover native wildlife instead of seeking ways to poke holes in the science keeping that ark afloat.

Jim McCarthy is an Ashland-based policy analyst for the Oregon Natural Resources Council."

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Here's more:

The Bush Administration's Endangered Species Act Legacy

by Patti Goldman
May 26, 2004

When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, he congratulated Congress "for taking this important step toward protecting a heritage which we hold in trust to countless future generations of our fellow citizens." The Bush administration is refusing to protect that heritage by denying imperiled wildlife populations the act's protections......

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=83213

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Now, If the ESA was enacted by a Republican administration, how could it be bad?

 

[feclnogn]

Now, If the ESA was enacted by a Republican administration, how could it be bad

Actually it's not that bad except when you have a bunch of wacked enviros using it to take land out of production, and to use it as a tool to further their anti-capitalist agenda.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Wyo Hunter,

It is good to see the younger people are much smarter than the old people. Luckily, the old ones who only care about being Fat-Assed ATV riders and seeing how much of the environment they can consume will eventually all be gone, leaving younger, more enlightened people like yourself to make the policy decisions.

 

[Elkhunter]

Very well said Wyodeerhunter.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Elky,
See... You can add something in SI, and get everybody thinking about the issue....

D.Sims,
It is more than just being "PC", it is about doing the "right thing" or ethics. Another thread has the issue of New MExico losing trapping. What do you think it does for the pro-hunting image with in the 80% of non-hunters (but not YET Anti-Hunters) when the read that Fat-Assed ATV riders who call themselves hunters don't care about anything other than killing a bull elk???

I bet it is crap and attitudes like MD's that are the nail in OUR coffins, as it relates to hunting. Look, if some of us who are Hunters are disgusted by that attitude, what do you think the non-hunters think???

And also, when I am hunting Elk, there are lots of things I don't do, because it is either against the law, against my ethics, or just plain wrong. I still keep some semblence of honor and integrity even if an Elk is around.