USFWS Announces Greater Sage-Grouse As Candidate Species
March 6, 2010
In a long-awaited announcement, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the greater sage-grouse will not be listed as threatened or endangered but instead will be placed on the candidate species list. That means the species will not receive statutory protection under the Endangered Species Act and that states would continue to be responsible for managing the bird.<<<read the rest>>>
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Candidate species can be lined up from here to doomsday, so it’s very convenient for the USFWS to pull a candidate species out of their back pocket and shake it at the landowners again.
What about the bugs they eat too? I am sure that there is some special grasshopper that is affected by mans existance that only the sage grouse can save by eating the old the weak and the sick. What other crisis can be concocted to make an environmentalist feel good?
Did ya know, australia’s got it so bad, people just can’t bring themselves to whack the toadie-frogs; and, now it looks like the dominant species is going to win. Poor people. It was nice while they were around…