THIS COUNTRY HAS SUNK JUST ABOUT AS LOW AS POSSIBLE.The US so-called Forest Service (yeah, right, some service that is) plans to use the notorious anticoagulant Rozol to kill the Prairie Dogs they set up a preserve for only 5 years ago -- to appease stupid attle ranchers who dont like them, even on government land. “Rozol makes creatures that ingest it bleed from every orifice and stagger around for the week or two or three it takes them to die, attracting predators and scavengers,” the environmental writer Ted Williams reports. “Whatever eats the anticoagulant-laced victim dies, too.” Insane. Thats the only word I can really use to describe these morons who are bending over backwards to appease idiots (lets see, morons & idiots ... that pretty much describes it). Just five years ago they set aside 85,000 acres at Thunder Basin as one of the last refuges in the American West where prairie dogs could not be poisoned, gassed, shot for target practice, set on fire, or otherwise harassed into extinction. The thinking then was straightforward: Only 2% of America’s prairie grasslands remain intact, and Thunder Basin represents one of the best remnants of that storied heritage. Meanwhile, black-tailed prairie dogs have lost an estimated 99 percent of their habitat. Now the Forest Service has announced its plan to poison 16,000 prairie dogs and dramatically shrink the already limited area in which prairie dogs are tolerated -- despite their declared plans to improve prairie dog habitat. They will also kill a lot of other wildlife in the affected area and, incidentally, squander taxpayer dollars for nothing. USFS is proposing the outlandish venture under pressure from cattle ranchers and politicians (more idiots), particularly Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, and to appease “a dedicated few who cling to archaic, erroneous concepts” about prairie dog biology. The quote comes from Jason A. Lillegraven, a vertebrate paleontologist who has retired from the University of Wyoming but still finds himself dealing with dinosaurs.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:13:47 +0000
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