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So as June 30th quickly approaches, all this group can do is continue to take a lawful, united stance.
"We can take this back, we can fight the government," said Buzbee.
On Memorial Day, these protesters plan to cut locks off a federal gate to express their opposition.
Nearly 2 million acres in 17 California counties would be closed off to the public
"This is our home and it's being taken away,"
The agency in 2006 designated 450,288 acres of critical red-legged frog habitat — a fraction of the 4.1 million acres initially recommended by agency scientists in 2001.
“Once the listing moves forward at the end of June, those who have been irrationally fearful of some unknown government plot to take away public access will see that every bit of public land will remain open,” said John Buckley, executive director of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center. “Not only will the world not come to an end, but almost no one will see any changes due to the listing. Federal agencies will simply be legally required to take extra care to avoid harm to these disappearing species.”
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
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The "17 counties" is just where the frogs are found. The doom and gloom being spread is just GOP representatives, using everything they can think of to rile up the people up against to vote against Dems for the mid-term elections. Everyone bitching about adding these frogs to the endangered list are republicans.
If you find anything that backs up your original story, let me know, but I can't find a thing that states that ANY lands will be closed.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent out a notice of intent to expand the closure of California’s forests. This addition spans 2 million acres, 14 counties, and 9 national forests along the eastern spine of California (see the map below). It is an area 30% larger than the state of Delaware. If transit corridors and buffer zones are added at a later date, the area could increase 10-fold. And this is only the start; there are 477 more species in the queue for consideration.
The reduction in frog and toad populations is not a mystery. It has already been studied. By far, the two main causes are the planting of trout in mountain lakes, and a virus being spread worldwide by the African Clawed Frog.
Loss of habitat is not the problem, and “habit restoration”―the removal of humans and every human development―is not the cure. The Endangered Species Act remedies are not relevant. The proposed actions will not fix the problem. They will only further hurt the people, their families, their communities, and our national self-sufficiency for food, water, energy, timber, and minerals.
The USFWS is accepting comments on both the listing and critical habitat designation on or before June 24, 2013.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
a reply to: xuenchen
Oops! You're too late!
This whole thing appears to be putting 2 frogs on the endangered species list and designating critical habitat for those frogs. What's the problem? Where's the "land grab"? That's a talking point the right wing is throwing around a lot lately. Damn you, Obama! LOL