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Mike

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Federal plan aims to help wildlife adapt to climate change

BY NEELA BANERJEE,
LA TIMES
Washington Bureau
March 27, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday announced a nationwide plan to help wildlife adapt to threats from climate change.

Developed along with state and tribal authorities, the strategy seeks to preserve species as global warming alters their historical habitats and, in many cases, forces them to migrate across state and tribal borders.

Over the next five years, the plan establishes priorities for what will probably be a decades-long effort. One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M. Ashe said such routes could be made through easements and could total "much more than 1 million acres." The plan does not provide an estimate of the cost.

The effects of climate change are already apparent, the plan notes. Oyster larvae are struggling off the Northwest coast. In the Atlantic, fish are migrating north and into deeper waters. Geese and ducks do not fly as far south. In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.

The plan, called the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, does not prioritize species to target, although "the polar bear is the poster child" of wildlife threatened by global warming, Ashe said.

But efforts have already begun to protect wildlife. The lesser prairie chicken in the Great Plains, for instance, also faces threats from mining, oil production, farming and ranching. Climate change models estimate that the chicken's habitat could undergo a 5-degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature and a drop in precipitation by 2060.

The federal government already pays ranchers and farmers to remove land from production to create wildlife refuges. If native prairie were restored to 10% of that land, according to one analysis, that could offset the prairie chicken's projected population decline.

Recently, some state-level efforts to adapt to global warming have been stymied by politicians who reject climate science. In North Carolina, for instance, planning to build infrastructure along the coast that could withstand storm surges worsened by sea-level rise has been delayed. State politicians dismissed scientific models that predicted the rise by the end of the century.

But efforts to help wildlife adapt have not provoked a backlash so far, state and administration officials said in a conference call.

"With coastal communities, there are challenges with coral populations, with changing dynamics in fish population," said Eric Schwaab, assistant administrator for fisheries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "So people are less focused on why and more focused on what's next."
 

Whitewing

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I would like to say this is unbelieveable, but then, we're living in the surreal world of the liberal agenda.

This is what happens when you vote for candidates like the King. Can't wait to see what the supremes look like when he's finished. :roll:

Thanks OT.
 

Tam

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Nope no joke :roll: but I like to see how Oldtimer is going to defend this horseshite with "well they all do it". :?
 

backhoeboogie

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Tam said:
Nope no joke :roll: but I like to see how Oldtimer is going to defend this horseshite with "well they all do it". :?

Oldtimer is going to come out on top. He's going to ride trail boss herding the pine trees up the new corridor.

Don't believe me? Go back and read these two key points!

In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.

One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats.
 

Steve

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could be made through easements and could total "much more than 1 million acres."

this basically means They take your land,.. tell you what you can and can't do,.. and you still pay them taxes....
 

Tam

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Steve said:
have not provoked a backlash so far,

maybe because this is the first time many are hearing of the plan to steal another million acres..

Gee another million acres in the hands of the Democrats. :? I wonder if any of those acres are going to run right through North Dakota aka The Bakken which will allow the Feds to shut down drilling like they have in all other Federally controlled lands?
Save the Wildlife, put it to the Big Greedy Oil Companies, and make the need for GREEN ENERGY even higher do to the price of gas. A TRUE DEMOCRAT TRIFICTA :roll:
 

TexasBred

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backhoeboogie said:
Tam said:
Nope no joke :roll: but I like to see how Oldtimer is going to defend this horseshite with "well they all do it". :?

Oldtimer is going to come out on top. He's going to ride trail boss herding the pine trees up the new corridor.

Don't believe me? Go back and read these two key points!

In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.

One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats.

Somebody needs to tell them that bark beetles have been killing trees for ages....they do so because no amount of spray will get under the bark to where they are located. The South is covered with Pines trees and never has really cold weather.
 

Steve

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Geese and ducks do not fly as far south.

around here the geese seldom fly at all having been cross bred with domestic geese they just eat,.. crap everywhere, and not much more..

and ducks are getting in on the welfare as well... that just don't eat and crap everywhere as much..
 

Whitewing

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Steve said:
Geese and ducks do not fly as far south.

around here the geese seldom fly at all having been cross bred with domestic geese they just eat,.. crap everywhere, and not much more..

and ducks are getting in on the welfare as well... that just don't eat and crap everywhere as much..

I wrote a technical paper in college on changes in the migration patterns of Canada geese. Louisiana once had a huge wintering population of the birds but by the early 1970's those populations had dwindled to a fraction of their former numbers.

Why? Their traditional migration patterns had been altered by the practice of "shortstopping". In essence, national wildlife preserves along the Mississippi flyway had instituted a practice of baiting the birds and artificially maintaining open water for them.

With all the free feed and water necessary to sustain themselves provided by Uncle Sam, why do the work of migrating? Nope, instead they became as productive as much of America's 47%.
 

okfarmer

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Whitewing said:
Steve said:
Geese and ducks do not fly as far south.

around here the geese seldom fly at all having been cross bred with domestic geese they just eat,.. crap everywhere, and not much more..

and ducks are getting in on the welfare as well... that just don't eat and crap everywhere as much..

I wrote a technical paper in college on changes in the migration patterns of Canada geese. Louisiana once had a huge wintering population of the birds but by the early 1970's those populations had dwindled to a fraction of their former numbers.

Why? Their traditional migration patterns had been altered by the practice of "shortstopping". In essence, national wildlife preserves along the Mississippi flyway had instituted a practice of baiting the birds and artificially maintaining open water for them.

With all the free feed and water necessary to sustain themselves provided by Uncle Sam, why do the work of migrating? Nope, instead they became as productive as much of America's 47%.

What a waste of time and energy, I would have flunked you. Had you really cared about geese, you would have documented the number of gander-gander relationships and average wt over time vs gander-goose relationships.

For an A, I would have expected some data on incubation of eggs to provide family opportunities of gander-gander pairs.

Since it was a long time ago :D , I would not have expected you to have been as enlightened as we are today and studied penile sizes. That's science right there.
 

Tam

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Whitewing said:
Now my goose is cooked. :oops:

If it is I hope you used a good recipe.

Next time keep this recipe in mind, you take a turkey stuff it with a goose after stuffing the goose with a chicken. And if you can get your hands on one of those duck penis's that Yale is studying maybe you could stuff that up the butt of the Chicken. Once roasted to perfection you might invite a few of Debbie Wasserman Shcultz's staffers over for a nummy meal I hear they are starving do to Obama Sequester Bill. :wink:
 

Traveler

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Proposals like this are a good reason to never vote for a Democrat.

How long until the argument is made that abortion is good for the environment and helps curb climate change?
 

Steve

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How long until the argument is made that abortion is good for the environment and helps curb climate change?

people are a huge burden for the planet and climate... instead of aborting babies who have not yet decided if global warming is true or not.. we should allow liberals to have the opportunity to end climate change now by reducing their footprint to zero..

each Liberal environmentalist will be held in carbon sequester containers six feet below the planet surface until the climate change is no longer a threat...

be sacrificing problem creating liberals now we can hope the children saved will come up with real solutions to world problems..
 
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