The [Colorado Springs, CO] City Council might ask the federal government to remove the Preble's meadow jumping mouse from the threatened-species list.
In its Jan. 27 meeting, the council is expected to discuss petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove federal protection for the 3-inch mouse, which has a tail twice the length of its body and can jump as high as 3 feet.
City officials say restrictions on development to protect the mouse have cost the area millions of dollars. The mouse is thought to exist only along creeks and streams on Colorado's Front Range and part of eastern Wyoming.
- AP/Denver Post (link here)
2 comments:
I don't think that how expensive it is to restrict development to protect a species has anything to do with whether the species is threatened or not.
Just like how expensive it is to clean up waste has nothing to do with whether the waste is hazardous or not, and how concessions made by states have nothing to do with whether they sponsor terrorism or not.
I agree.
We need to star making those H.O.M.E.s
High Orbital Mini Earths
save all beings!
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