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<blockquote data-quote="MO_cows" data-source="post: 1134379" data-attributes="member: 9169"><p>Here's another article. Note that the endangered listing for the mouse comes via settlement of a lawsuit by a group of environmental activists. So it isn't biologists who determined the mouse needed protection, it's these enviros and their lawyers. And it says their new fencing arrangement allows for feral hogs to access the water, which is nuts because they will root up the area and do more damage than the cattle!</p><p></p><p><em>District ranger James Duran said the Forest Service is taking steps to protect habitat for the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, which was proposed for listing as an endangered species in June 2013 after a 251-species settlement in 2011 between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and WildEarth Guardians.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Fish and Wildlife Services are preparing to list the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse," Mr. Duran told the Alamogordo Daily News. "With the meadow mouse listing, what we've been told is they do plan to move forward in June of 2014 to list that as an endangered species. Once a species is listed as an endangered species it's protected. Federally protected. We have to abide by that."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Two weeks ago, the Otero County Commission issued a cease-and-desist letter to the Forest Service, saying the fence "amounts to nothing short of criminal trespass by your personnel, potential animal cruelty and several other violations of state criminal or civil law."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The agency replaced a barbed-wire fence with a 3-foot pipe fence that elk and deer, but not cattle, can jump over. Hundreds of elk, deer and feral hogs are still able to drink from the creek.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Mr. Moseley said the Forest Service created an opening in the fence for cattle, but Albuquerque lawyer Blair Dunn, who represents the county on the issue, said, "It's really a needle in a haystack for the cows to figure out how to get into the 10-foot space."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The Forest Service fence runs along the county line on the side of a mountain, which ranchers say creates a dangerous situation for cattle and motorists.</em></p><p></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/11/the-feds-next-land-fight-new-mexico-ranchers-anger/#ixzz32AKt8YXI" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... z32AKt8YXI</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MO_cows, post: 1134379, member: 9169"] Here's another article. Note that the endangered listing for the mouse comes via settlement of a lawsuit by a group of environmental activists. So it isn't biologists who determined the mouse needed protection, it's these enviros and their lawyers. And it says their new fencing arrangement allows for feral hogs to access the water, which is nuts because they will root up the area and do more damage than the cattle! [i]District ranger James Duran said the Forest Service is taking steps to protect habitat for the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, which was proposed for listing as an endangered species in June 2013 after a 251-species settlement in 2011 between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and WildEarth Guardians. “Fish and Wildlife Services are preparing to list the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse,” Mr. Duran told the Alamogordo Daily News. “With the meadow mouse listing, what we’ve been told is they do plan to move forward in June of 2014 to list that as an endangered species. Once a species is listed as an endangered species it’s protected. Federally protected. We have to abide by that.” Two weeks ago, the Otero County Commission issued a cease-and-desist letter to the Forest Service, saying the fence “amounts to nothing short of criminal trespass by your personnel, potential animal cruelty and several other violations of state criminal or civil law.” The agency replaced a barbed-wire fence with a 3-foot pipe fence that elk and deer, but not cattle, can jump over. Hundreds of elk, deer and feral hogs are still able to drink from the creek. Mr. Moseley said the Forest Service created an opening in the fence for cattle, but Albuquerque lawyer Blair Dunn, who represents the county on the issue, said, “It’s really a needle in a haystack for the cows to figure out how to get into the 10-foot space.” The Forest Service fence runs along the county line on the side of a mountain, which ranchers say creates a dangerous situation for cattle and motorists.[/i] Read more: [url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/11/the-feds-next-land-fight-new-mexico-ranchers-anger/#ixzz32AKt8YXI]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... z32AKt8YXI[/url] [/QUOTE]
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