Citing a threat from rat poison used on illegal marijuana plantations, federal biologists on Monday proposed Endangered Species Act protection for West Coast populations of the fisher, a larger cousin of the weasel.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published notice in the Federal Register that it wants to list the fisher as a threatened species in Oregon, California and Washington.
The full proposal was expected Tuesday. The fisher is the second species in the West for which biologists have formally recognized a threat from marijuana cultivation.
A recovery plan for coho salmon calls for reducing pollution from pesticides and fertilizers used on pot plantations...Scientists are also working to see how much the poisons are affecting the northern spotted owl...more
The feds can't manage their own lands which then creates a threat to a species. The feds then designate the species and identify critical habitat, which then punishes the legal users of the federal land and any private land owner in the area. Nice work.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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