According to the ROCKIE MOUNTAIN NEWS, Obama's Secretary of the Interior will give PETA and others a friendly ear

and re-hear arguments to put the black tailed prairie dogs on the endangered species list. The enviro-nazis will

have their friends in high office.

Someday, the young stupid bastards will regret they voted for this guy.

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Obama's Secretary of the Interior will give PETA and others a friendly ear and re-hear arguments to put the black tailed prairie dogs on the endangered species list.

It's actually the USF&WS under the Bush administration who's done that. Obama hasn't taken office, nor has he even appointed an Interior Secretary yet.

This is just one of a string of species that will undergo more thorough review and that's because Bush appointees in the Interior Dept. were caught tampering with scientific reports and 'editing' them. They were caught at it and this is the consequence.

Otherwise, the process for deciding whether to list the BTPD under the ESA has been ongoing for quite some time now, you might want to educate yourself on it. Lot's of info. here,

USF&WS - Black-tailed Prairie Dog Page

Fish and Wildlife Service to Conduct Status Review of the Black-tailed Prairie Dog

The black-tailed prairie dog may warrant federal protection as a threatened or endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today, following an initial review of a petition seeking to protect the black-tailed prairie dog under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

The Service will undertake a more thorough review of the black-tailed prairie dog to determine whether to propose adding it to the federal list of endangered species.

Today’s decision, commonly known as a 90-day finding, is based on scientific information about the black-tailed prairie dog provided in the petition requesting listing the species under the Act. The petition finding does not mean that the Service has decided it is appropriate to give the black-tailed prairie dog federal protection under the ESA. Rather, this finding is the first step in a long process that triggers a more thorough review of all the biological information available.

To ensure this review is comprehensive, the Service is soliciting information from state and federal natural resource agencies and all interested parties regarding the black-tailed prairie dog and its habitat.

Comments and information will be accepted until February 2, 2009 and can be submitted electronically via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at: http://www.regulations.gov, or can be mailed or hand delivered to Public Comments Processing, Attn: FWS-R6-ES-2008-0111; Division of Policy and Directives Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 222; Arlington, VA 22203.

The Service will evaluate all information regarding the status and distribution of the black-tailed prairie dog, including the impacts or potential impacts to the species resulting from either human activities or natural causes.

Black-tailed prairie dogs are found east of the continental divide in the states of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Prairie dogs were extirpated in Arizona in the early 1960s; however, 74 prairie dogs were reintroduced into the State in October and further reintroduction efforts are anticipated.

In March 2008, WildEarth Guardians filed a complaint against the Service for failure to complete a finding on their August 2007 petition to list the black-tailed prairie dog. In a July 2008 stipulated settlement, the Service agreed to submit a finding on the petition by November 30, 2008.

The petitioners assert that several factors affect black-tailed prairie dog habitat, including conversion of prairie grasslands to cropland; urbanization; oil, gas, and mineral extraction; plague; recreational shooting; and livestock grazing.

For more information regarding the black-tailed prairie dog, please visit our web site at http://www.fws.gov/mountain-pr...ammals/btprairiedog/

It's easier for them to blame Obama. In fact, it's fast becoming their mantra.

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Originally posted by wymple:
It's easier for them to blame Obama. In fact, it's fast becoming their mantra.

and I don't even have a clue what a mantra is. Isn't that an aquatic mammal? roger

They are as endangered as a roach. They are disease infested rats of a different name. True they are not in cornfields but in pastures, and when they are allowed to breed they look like roaches in a bad hood. In Nebraska they counted them by plane and came to a very low estimate compared to reality. In Colorado where they want to stop the senseless killing, , just talk to the ranchers and ask them how scarce they are.

Colorado Senator Ken Salazar has just been named by Obama as his Secretary of the Interior. Salazar is a Native American/Hispanic, wears a Stetson, and has always shown pretty good common sense.

If you'll note, the reason for the Status Review of the (far from endangered) black tailed prarie dog is that the incompetent Bush administration ignored a petition from an otherwise ineffective fringe group and found itself forced to actually do a Status Review as a settlement to a lawsuit. All they would have had to do was issue a finding, based on readily available data, that the BTPD was not suitable for listing. Instead, they gave the nuthatches ammunition to take them to court and generate publicity that might cause some of the public to assume that a hundred jillion prairie dogs are about to disappear from the face of the earth.

I had a fed game biologist tell me that 90% of the p'dogs that died in the 20th century died of government spread poison. And at that time there were Indians (Native Americans, excuse me) in Washington looking for money to poison all the p'dogs so the range would be better for cattle raising... while on the same reservation there were Indians that were guides on p'dog shoots...

It is a zoo and unfortunately there is NO leadership in opposing all the nuthatches. So I suppose one day the ag worker who shoots these cousins to rats will be afoul of the law. It is like putting up for Endanged Status the 4 legged rats in New York City (or Chicago!)... When what we need is an "open season" on the 2 legged rats... or like that... oh welll HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

I Nebraska I would wager that more ground rats died of ingesting a substance than would have ever died of a lead headache after most everyone expected that they were soon to be "protected".