tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post8280933544794504590..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: Wolves Regain Endangered-species ProtectionsPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-20885722768082143852008-07-19T22:36:00.000-04:002008-07-19T22:36:00.000-04:00Here's another environmental group suing the gover...Here's another environmental group suing the government <BR/><BR/>http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080717/VOICES01/807170311/1052/OPINION01<BR/><BR/>WildEarth Guardians, an environmental watchdog group from Colorado, is behind the effort: A settlement agreement in a lawsuit brought by the group requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to issue a preliminary ruling on the <BR/>prairie dog's status by November.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The prairie dog's status is important for the survival of the Black Footed ferret, and the government keeps poisoning them. <BR/><BR/>There are a lot of people involved the the survival of the Black footed ferret, and they've worked hard, only to have the government and Bush administration shoot them down. The Black footed ferret is a beautiful animal, with so much controversy around them. The earliest fossil evidence of black-footed ferrets in North America is mid-Pleistocene (~800,000 years ago—Anderson 2004; Owen et al. 2000). And man is the reason they became extinct in less than 100 years, through the eradication of the prairie dog, the ferrets main food source.Susiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05849586438165278044noreply@blogger.com