Environmentalists: Endangered Species Need Action

The “Eco-Elite” have set aside millions of acres in California as frog habitat. You really think that’s enough? I mean we’re talkin’ endangered red legged frogs here - not just some wimpy endangered milk thistle or spotted slime slug. I think something that high on the food chain at least deserves it’s own state.

And that leads me to another environmentally correct dilemma - what if the habitat of the red legged frog conflicts with that of, say the arroyo toad for which they’ve already closed thousands of acres, several campgrounds, streams, roads and trails? I mean you can see the problems; what if the frogs eat the toads food and the toads suffer or vice versa? And I’m sure these frogs and toads share a lot of the same territory as the endangered steelhead, endangered salmon, endangered cutthroat trout (say, are sunfish endangered yet? Well no matter, if not now they soon will be.). And, what about the perennially endangered snail darter and river stickle back? It's certain some of these toads and frogs will, of course, be eaten by the endangered fish. We could remove some of the fish, but that might disturb all the endangered eagles, hawks, condors, owls, buzzards, falcons, osprey - as well as the endangered mountain lions and bears who don’t know the fish are endangered and eat them anyway. What a problem for Environmentalist theology.

I mean life was easier when Environmentalists just had to; take away people's property, prevent farmers from growing food, put up fences and locked gates on “public” lands, close National Parks to private vehicles, stop hunting and fishing, close roads and campgrounds, condemn SUV’s, set fires and sabotage private businesses, exterminate the evil “non-native species” and close millions of acres to preserve them so that future generations can’t use them either. The enviros are becoming very successful at separating man form nature (since he has no place in it), and stopping companies from mining, building power plants or homes, drilling for oil or thinning our forests.

But now, how do we keep all the endangered species from eating each other or encroaching on another species's habitat? It's hard for mere mortals to build a Garden of Eden - Of course without a man and woman, who were the root of the whole problem in the first place.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 10:35PM December 29, 2009