Monday, July 14, 2008

Where are the Environmentalists?

 

 
State Water Engineer Tracy Taylor agreed to allow the Las Vegas Valley Water Authority to pump 6 BILLION gallons of water a year from rural Nevada to quench an overheated Las Vegas. Did you hear that? SIX BILLION GALLONS A YEAR from our farmers and ranchers AND pristine Nevada desert! LVRJ

 
 
Where are the environmentalist protesters? Where are the discussions on fish, turtles, rabbits and plants that will be destroyed with this water drainage. I don't understand how all the all this can happen without hundreds of lawsuits filed by US Fish and Wildlife, Sierra Club, Forestry Services and even Indian Reservations! This doesn't just effect the farmers and ranchers.

 
 
Every time a farmer wants to move a water right permit from one field down the road a mile to another field HE OWNS he get hit with 100 lawsuits from these groups. Now LVVWA is moving billions, and piping it a couple HUNDRED MILES there is not a peep from US Fish and Wildlife. Can someone answer where these people are on this?
 
Posted by Preserving Rural Opportunities in Nevada at 8:51 AM

 

The poor pupfish die off from 88 to 38 this past winter. But they're "holding their own". Good thing we pay 17 PhD's to tell us this!

Apr. 17, 2007
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

'POPULATION ... HOLDING ITS OWN': Pupfish count steady

Federal biologists' tally of 38 remains lowest on record

By KEITH ROGERS
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Divers who surveyed a water-filled limestone cave 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas found that the planet's only wild population of Devil's Hole pupfish had not dropped below the lowest estimate of 38 counted a year ago, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official said Monday.

"The population, while small, is holding its own," Bob Williams, Nevada's field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said about the Saturday count at Devil's Hole, a protected part of Death Valley National Park that's in Nevada near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

The count matched last year's spring count, the lowest on record. But the population held to its cycle of rebounding in the fall to 88, then declining in the winter.

In January biologists dropped food in the hole to augment the diet of the inch-long, neon-blue fish. Williams said, however, that his team of wildlife biologists can't attribute the 38 thriving fish to the feeding experiment.

"While the number we were hoping would be higher, the difference between '06 and '07 is all the things we've done," Williams said.

He was referring to efforts to breed a select number of Devil's Hole pupfish at Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery on Lake Mohave and at the Point of Rocks refugium near Devil's Hole at Ash Meadows.

Two adults and a juvenile pupfish have survived a translocation experiment at Point of Rocks and three adults and a juvenile are swimming along with three larvae that hatched from eggs at the hatchery. A fourth egg is about ready to hatch, Williams said.

"I think we're getting the techniques down where we can have better success at the hatchery," he said.

Williams said a task force will soon make recommendations to regional wildlife managers on how to increase the captive population at Point of Rocks and increase propagation at Willow Beach.

No pupfish are living in a concrete tank near Hoover Dam that once housed a reserve population until a snail infestation occurred.

Despite efforts to clean the tank, the snail problem persists.

The population once peaked at 553, based on estimates of the counts that have been conducted twice each year for the past few decades.

But the species' numbers had been in decline in recent years for unknown reasons.

Then the population took a sharp turn for the worse on Sept. 11, 2004, when a flash flood sent a tub of glass fish traps tumbling into the hole. The traps were being used by Southern Oregon University researchers to assess pupfish reproduction.

Death Valley National Park officials did not realize until several days after the flood that some of the unbroken fish traps ended up capturing and killing about one-third of the pupfish population at the time, 80 in all.
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So let's stop and think about this a minute ...

So how much should we spend on this FISH to try to save it?
US Fish says in 2004 they only spent "$137,820.00" but that was before they cut the population with all these experts to 37. NOW they have "redoubled" their efforts and are spending 5 times that money.
There are now roughly 80 fish that they are spending upwards of $800,000 dollars on, plus the donations of Mandalay Bay. Which works out to roughly $10,000.00 per Devil's Hole Pupfish! Now PRO Nevada realizes that in the scheme of government budgets anything less than a billion dollars is hardly looked at but give us a break. We are spending all this money and the fish are better off without us!

The Devil's Hole Pupfish need a fake environment to survive so we just spent tens of thousands of dollars to build a Ceasar's Palace for them to "mate".

Dec. 22, 2006

New pupfish population in place

PVT

Fishery biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and the Nevada Department of Wildlife successfully transferred four adult Devil's Hole pupfish (two females and two males) from Devil's Hole, Death Valley National Park, to the newly restored Point of Rocks Refugium.

The translocation activity was recommended to upper management directors from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and the Nevada Department of Wildlife during a multi-agency meeting held in August. "The successful transfer and establishment of a population of pupfish at a location outside of Devil's Hole provides an additional security measure against the possible extinction of the species," said Bob Williams, field supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Nevada.

The Point of Rocks Refugium, located in Nye County, had been a successful pupfish habitat in the past. The refugium had been renovated prior to the transfer of pupfish in order to remove non-native snails, implement measures to prevent the snails from re-invading the refugium in the future and to re-establish organisms for the pupfish to feed upon before they could be transferred to the facility. These restoration activities were completed in September.

"I support the team's recommendation and the action being taken to improve the pupfish's chances for survival," said Death Valley National Park superintendent J.T. Reynolds. Based on the success of the first stocking of four pupfish, a second transfer will move an additional eight pupfish (four males and four females) from Devil's Hole in approximately two weeks for a total of 12 individual pupfish.The transfer of the pupfish is an effort to try and re-establish and increase the population of pupfish outside of their native habitat of Devil's Hole

 

Espionage in the Bureau of Reclamation for the Moapa Dace

December 22, 2006 at 7:45:44 PST

Fish has ally in water war

By Launce Rake <lrake@lasvegassun.com>
Las Vegas Sun

Feds to fire employee who shared information with environmentalists

By Launce Rake
Las Vegas Sun

 

The federal Bureau of Reclamation is preparing to fire an employee who provided environmentalists with information on a planned, Nevada-funded project to build a huge reservoir to capture Colorado River water near the Mexican border.

Charles Rex Wahl, an environmental protection specialist for the Bureau of Reclamation's Albuquerque office, worked for more than two years in the agency's Yuma, Ariz., office. During that time, he provided information on the bureau's activities to an analyst with Environmental Defense, a national environmental group.

Bureau managers say the "administratively controlled" information was confidential, for internal purposes .

The bureau said it discovered at least 10 e-mails that revealed confidential information after Wahl was transferred to Albuquerque, and his supervisor looked through Wahl's e-mail to see whether any documents needed to be acted upon or completed.

Most of the e-mails are casual in character, although they discuss some of the bureau's biggest projects along the Colorado River.

A government description of his job, which paid more than $60,000 annually, was to manage "all elements of assigned National Environmental Policy Act compliance activities associated with actions and initiatives of the Yuma Area Office."

In practice that meant interacting with the public, environmental groups and other agencies, providing information and providing input on policy issues to his managers at the bureau.

Representatives for Wahl say the information was public - or should have been - and he was responding to requests for information from other agencies or nonprofit groups.

The Bureau of Reclamation manages river flows on the Colorado River through lakes Powell and Mead, and works closely with water agencies, including the Southern Nevada Water Authority, to supply water for more than 20 million people and millions of acres of agriculture in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada.

Federal investigators cited numerous e-mails from Wahl to Environmental Defense and two other federal agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, that were discovered after Wahl left the Yuma office in May.

One issue that Wahl provided information on was the proposed Drop 2 reservoir that would capture Colorado River water before it reaches Mexico's Sea of Cortez. Some environmentalists are concerned that the reservoir and an accompanying project, lining of the All-American Canal near the Mexican border, will adversely affect rare wildlife in the Colorado River delta and nearby desert.

President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation authorizing the two water projects, and designating the Southern Nevada Water Authority as the source for funding of the $84 million reservoir project. In exchange for funding the reservoir, the Water Authority could, for up to seven years, take enough water from Lake Mead to serve about 120,000 households.

In its intent-to-terminate letter, the bureau accused Wahl of being "in regular contact with organizations who you described as having an adversarial relationship with the Yuma office and who you believed had threatened litigation over the proposed Drop 2 Project."

Wahl also identified specific documents that environmentalists could request under the Freedom of Information Act .

The government specifically complained that Wahl released internal management information regarding the seismic stability of a river-water desalting plant in Yuma.

Releasing that information "was subversive in nature and hindered the accomplishment of agency work," Assistant Area Manager Arthur Valverde said in a September letter spelling out the reason for Wahl's termination.

Bureau spokesman Barry Wirth declined to comment on the issue.

"The Bureau of Reclamation," he said, "is unable to comment on pending actions regarding human resource activities."

Wahl declined to comment about the termination. He is being represented by the national environmental group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The Washington, D.C.-based group noted that Wahl's wife, a temporary clerk typist in the Albuquerque office, was also fired.

Paula Dinerstein, the group's senior counsel, said Wahl was fired for doing his job - providing environmental information to groups with an interest in the bureau's activities.

"These charges are both insulting and illegal. Public servants cannot be fired simply for telling inconvenient truths," she said. "Part of the Bureau of Reclamation's problem is that it apparently regards environmentalists as enemies."

Dinerstein said that she expects to have a formal notice of "final action" terminating the employee, who has been on leave since September, within several weeks. Wahl's legal representatives are arguing the bureau is breaking national environmental laws in the termination. Wahl, a civil servant, also has a guaranteed appeal process.

The problem is not with Wahl but with the bureau, Dinerstein said.

"The Bureau of Reclamation, particularly the office that he was in Yuma, Ariz., was really making a mockery of public compliance. It was trying to avoid public comment and trying to avoid compliance with the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act.

"Mr. Wahl was trying to do his job as an environmental officer. He was trying to do the job that he was told to do in terms of his job description. Apparently that wasn't really what they wanted him to do."

Launce Rake can be reached at 259-4127 or at lrake@lasvegassun.com.

Six environmental groups are trying to halt plans to take ground water out of northern Clark County in a complex effort to gain Lake Mead water credits, because they fear it will leave a tiny desert minnow high and dry. The environmentalists contend that the effort to pull water from Moapa and Coyote valleys could push the endangered 3-inch Moapa dace toward extinction.

The plan is one in an ambitious series of projects that would allow authorities to tap dwindling Colorado River water to support the increasingly thirsty region, provoking a collective howl of protest from environmental groups. The Southern Nevada Water Authority promised water for the endangered minnows in April, while also announcing plans to withdraw more than 16,000 acre-feet of water annually - more than 5 billion gallons - from wells in the two valleys. The water would flow to the Muddy River, which drains into Lake Mead. In return for the increased flows, the agency hopes to win approval for the right to take more water from the lake.

But the environmental groups say that the drawdown will degrade the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge and jeopardize the dace, which already is imperiled by limited ground water. The groups argue that the water plan, involving the Water Authority, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Moapa Valley Water District, the Moapa Band of Paiutes and a Reno-based development company, violates the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

The environmentalists gave notice this month of their intention to sue unless the parties address the threats to the dace. The plaintiffs include Defenders of Wildlife, the Great Basin Water Network, Nevada Outdoor Recreation Association, the Nevada Wildlife Federation, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Red Rock Audubon Society.

They complain that the Fish and Wildlife Service is giving way to the Water Authority and its partners without opening up the process for public comment. Bob Williams, Fish and Wildlife statewide director, said the agreement with the Water Authority doesn't abrogate his agency's commitment to protect the Moapa dace. If pumping of ground water affects the endangered fish, Fish and Wildlife is prepared to go back and protect its water rights, Williams said.

John Entsinger, Water Authority deputy counsel, said the agreement would actually lead to an increase in water dedicated specifically to the minnow's recovery. He also noted that the authority bought Warm Springs Ranch, the habitat for 80 percent of the existing dace population, earlier this year.

The $70 million purchase of the 1,200-acre ranch promises to protect the 3-inch dace from larger and hungrier tilapia, a fish that is "a far greater threat to the dace than fluctuations in spring flow," Entsinger said.

Daniel Patterson, Southwest regional director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the latest salvo is part of an ongoing fight between environmental groups and government agencies .

The core issue is growth in the desert, and that is a tough fight, he said. "There's a lot of money. There's a lot of political clout," Patterson said. "Decisions are being made now that could end up being big problems for large numbers of people."

Other issues include:

  • The Water Authority's effort to build wells and pipelines in rural Nevada to pump ground water to urban areas. Environmentalists fear the drawdowns' effects on the rural environment.
  • Recent federal legislation to allow the Water Authority to pay for a new reservoir on the Colorado River near the Mexican border in exchange for the right to take water from Lake Mead. Environmental groups are concerned that the loss of water to the river delta could threaten the delta's already fragile environment.
  • The Water Authority's support for lining of the All-American Canal near the Mexican border, which environmentalists argue would harm local wildlife.
  • The agency's proposed use of Virgin and Muddy river water from northeast Clark County, which environmentalists fear could have negative effects on desert ecology.

    John Hiatt, conservation committee chairman for Southern Nevada's Red Rock Audubon Society, said the Moapa dace issue and others put a spotlight on the Water Authority, an agency that trumpets its environmental stewardship in advertising campaigns. "I think the (Water Authority's) biologists care about the environment, but I don't think the biologists are making the decisions about this," he said. "I have a lot of respect for the people there, but in the end the political pressure is all about the water." Brian Segee, staff attorney with Defenders of Wildlife, said there is a common thread among Water Authority projects.

    "A shared characteristic of many of the projects is a move to limit public participation," Segee said. "There are decisions that are being made on a regional level or a national level that are being done behind closed doors. Our goal is not to obstruct projects, but to ensure that environmental issues are fully considered before decisions are made." Segee said years of drought and growing demand are pushing local and federal agencies to approve big projects before their effects are fully understood.

    "In the rush to reach those end points," he said, "they may find that they are actually creating more problems and more delays than if they had dealt with some of these issues up front." Pat Mulroy, authority general manager, said her agency is committed to environmental protection. "Responsibly managing a water supply requires that you carefully manage the environment that surrounds it," she said.

    The Water Authority has been a "staunch advocate" for a plan to protect habitat for endangered species in the Colorado River, has supported water quality and erosion-control efforts in the Las Vegas Wash, and is a partner in developing Las Vegas Springs Preserve, she said. "We firmly believe that, if managed wisely, there is enough water available both to support people and to maintain a healthy environment," she said. Some environmentalists defend the Water Authority's efforts.

    "For years now Pat has been one of the few leaders in the lower basin water establishment that has spoken repeatedly on the need to address the environmental issues in the Colorado River Delta," said Jennifer Pitt, a resource analyst for Environmental Defense, a nationwide organization. Earlier this month she spoke at the Water Authority-sponsored Colorado River Water Users Association meeting.

    Launce Rake can be reached at 259-4127 or at lrake@lasvegassun.com.

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    Editorial Board at LVRJ hits the nail on the head again!

    Nov. 15, 2006
    Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

    EDITORIAL: Save the forests?

    As we wrote two weeks ago, doom and gloom has long been the driving force behind environmentalism. Dire warnings help greens achieve their policy goals in Congress, state legislatures and the courts. Apocalyptic predictions, such as the current global warming scare, raise millions of dollars from frightened loyalists. The media, ever eager to provide breathless bulletins, put the stories all over the airwaves, front pages and magazine covers. And research grants flow more quickly to taxpayer-supported scientists if some phantom threat to humanity can be identified.

    There's no such thing as good news when you're trying to save the world, no matter how many end-of-days scenarios are trumped by human ingenuity.

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    That's why we don't expect to hear many environmentalists applaud a report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study found that although forests are shrinking in a handful of countries, they're actually growing in many parts of the world.

    Researcher Pekka E. Kauppi of the University of Helsinki, Finland, used United Nations data and a formula that examines not simply how many acres are covered with trees, but the volume and density of the timber. The study found increases in forest density over just the past 15 years in 22 countries on five continents, from Chile to China, Italy to India, and the United States to Spain.

    What do these countries have in common? Advanced, growing economies that embrace new technologies and open trade.

    "The main obstacles to forest transition are fast-growing, poor populations who burn wood to cook, sell it for quick cash and clear forest for crops," says Mr. Kauppi.

    Forests are still being cleared in Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria, among other developing nations. Environmentalists focus much of their "save the rainforests" chatter on these areas. But rather than encourage policies that might speed economic advancement and trust that these forests, like so many others, will recover over time, the greens insist on telling people who merely desire a better quality of life that they should not be allowed to harvest their natural resources.

    Ironically, as environmentalists work to stop the cutting down of trees here and abroad, they simultaneously argue that 30 to 40 percent of the world's forests will dry out in the next century because of global warming. Save the trees now ... so they can die later?

    Mr. Kauppi's study is further proof of the resiliency of Mother Nature

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    You have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!

    Nov. 10, 2006

    Toad halts Beatty land sale

    By MARK WAITE
    PVT

    The planned sale of 40 acres by the U.S. Bureau Land of Management in Beatty has been put on hold due to concerns about the Amargosa toad, Nye County District II Commissioner Joni Eastley angrily complained at the Nye County Commission meeting last week. The property had been scheduled for a competitive land auction Nov. 15 at the Beatty Community Center. Eastley said two protests were received. BLM Tonopah Field Station Manager William Fisher said one protest by Ed Ylst asks that a lien be placed on the property, based on the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, which claims land for the Western Shoshone tribe. Fisher said that protest has been referred to legal counsel.

    The second protest was filed by the Friends of the Amargosa Toad, which Fisher said will be referred to the Amargosa Toad Working Group to determine whether it's a valid protest.

    Eastley said the protest, signed by five people on behalf of Friends of the Amargosa Toad, uses a dissertation on the creature by an assistant professor of biology at Paul Smith University in New York, Eric Simandle, which talks about "metapopulation," in which the toads move from one area to another in response to weather conditions.

    The protest by Friends of the Amargosa Toad states: "These movements are essential to preserving the genetic diversity of the species and hence its survival. Isolation in one area would reduce diversity, thereby rendering the species more susceptible to predators, drought and other adverse environmental factors. As part of his research he identified the 39.73 acres in question as part of an essential route used by the Amargosa toad in moving from the Amargosa River and Oasis Valley areas to Indian Spring, located in the hills above the parcel."

    The Friends quote Simandle's opinion that without the availability of this corridor, the Amargosa toad would go extinct.Fisher said data collected by the working group show an upward trend in the population of the toad, but said some of it could be due to biological factors. We've had relatively wet years the last couple years, which for toads is a good thing," Fisher said.

    The protest filed by Ylst states the land is not owned by the BLM and isn't federal land. Instead, the land is within the Beatty settlement rest station and recreation park in trust under the Treaty of Ruby Valley, which talks about the first in time, first in right. His protest states, "BLM is not authorized to sell non-public lands and Nye County Commissioners are not authorized to ignore existing title."

    Eastley complained the protests could complicate the financing plans of the successful bidder. "This is very upsetting to me. These small communities are landlocked by public lands. There are few opportunities for community expansion. When an opportunity to expand presents itself like this sale, I think it's a terrible thing that the process can be stopped in such a manner," Eastley said. She added, "I will never, ever think that animals are more important than people."

    "There is quite an interested party list," said Wendy Seley, BLM realty specialist. She said there haven't been any land sales in Beatty of this magnitude in many years. The property is located on North Avenue on the northern boundary of Beatty.
     
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    Great editorial in the Review Journal:

    Oct. 31, 2006
    Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

    EDITORIAL: Greens target species skeptic

    Interior official won't rubber stamp listing proposals

    Future scholars, seeking a textbook example of the way a federal bureaucracy can stretch a limited congressional authorization to justify regulating everything in sight, could do worse than the Endangered Species Act. The law seemed noncontroversial when first proposed -- the encroachment of civilization was seen as threatening the extinction of certain large animals that remain "totemic" of the American wilderness, including the grizzly bear and the bald eagle.

    But the greens discovered long ago that to cripple development or outdoor recreation anywhere in the nation, all that's now required is to locate some obscure weed, bug, slug, salamander or slime mold and propose that it be listed as "threatened."

    Since 1973, the federal government has identified 1,337 domestic species as threatened or endangered. But of the 1,337 species that have ever been listed, 1,311 remain on the list. A species doesn't even have to be in short supply to merit federal canonization. The process of getting a species listed has long since "evolved" to the point where "distinct local populations" of tree squirrels -- so common they're killed by exterminators in many parts of the country -- can be declared threatened or endangered if doing so is found useful in limiting the development of a university telescope project on some southern Arizona mountaintop where the furry pests happen to be in short supply.

    Yet heaven help a political appointee who actually tries to bring some common sense to such a self-perpetuating government "industry."

    "Overall, President Bush's appointees have added far fewer species to the protected list than did the administrations of either Bill Clinton or George H.W. Bush," The Washington Post reported this week.

    The culprit in all this is a Bush appointee named Julie MacDonald, a civil engineer by training who worked at the California Resources Agency before joining Interior, and who has served as deputy assistant secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks since 2004.

    Ms. MacDonald "has rejected staff scientists' recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act at least half a dozen times in the past three years," the Post reveals. Not only that, she sometimes makes fun of them, spicing her correspondence with "mocking comments," the Post reports.

    Oh, the humanity!

    "The documents show MacDonald has repeatedly refused to go along with staff reports concluding that species such as the white-tailed prairie dog and the Gunnison's sage grouse are at risk of extinction," the Post quivers.

    Francesca Grifo of the Union of Concerned Scientists tells the Post that MacDonald's actions are "not business as usual, but a systemic problem of tampering with science that is putting our environment at risk."

    Note the phrase -- not endangering squirrels or salamanders, mind you, but "our environment." The critters themselves, clearly, are little more than pawns or proxies.

    The only thing Ms. MacDonald's healthy skepticism puts at risk is the ongoing scam through which the greens turn up some local weed or bug they could not care less about, and then use it to sanctify and "protect" an entire ecosystem from productive human use -- funding their ongoing efforts with extorted tax dollars.

    When scientists raised the possibility that a proposed road might degrade the greater sage grouse's habitat, which is scattered through 11 Western states, MacDonald wrote in the margin of the document: "Has nothing to do with sage grouse. This belongs to a treatise on 'Why roads are bad'."

    Ms. MacDonald has apologized for her sarcasm. But she shouldn't have.

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    So you want to poison fish to SAVE fish?

    Okay, so now we at PRO Nevada are really confused. Does is seem at all strange to you that the US Fish and Wildlife Services and the Forest Service wants to poison one species of fish so that they can revive an endangered fish? Reno Gazette Journal article. Bob Williams, field supervisor for US Fish and Wildlife said, "This would be a success story, this would be a species we can remove from the list." Apparently they (US Fish and Wildlife) spent $125,000 of YOUR TAXES on a report that "should" show that the project can proceed without harm to the environment. Now aren't these the same people who tells farmers and ranchers that our animal waste is harmful to the environment? Now they want to dump Rotenone into the creeks to kill fish? I don't get it?

    PRO Nevada was at a US Fish and Wildlife and Forest service informational meeting on the "endangered" pupfish here in Nevada. During the conservation efforts they produced a hybrid species of pupfish, somehow some amorous "ordinary" pupfish got in with the rare Devil's Hole pupfish and enjoyed their time together producing a blend of the two. So US Fish and Wildlife wants to use these hybrids to experiment on to try to save the rare pupfish. Wait a minute? What makes the Devil's Hole Pupfish more important than these hybrid pupfish? If anything they are MORE RARE and should be MORE IMPORTANT not less!

    These two examples just prove the inconsistencies and just plain silliness of the US Fish and Wildlife and the Forestry Service in trying to play god in nature. Killing one fish to save another or killing off a hybrid like it is so much sushi to help figure out how to save a similar fish. All the while suing farmers, ranchers and miners in Nevada for "hurting" these same fish.

    That is definitely NOT PRO Nevada!

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