Joyce takes on Preble?s meadow jumping mouse this week calling its protection situational ethics and then proceeding to just lie about the whole damn process.
But new research suggests the allegedly endangered Preble?s mouse never existed. According to Jay Lehr, Ph.D., in Heartland Institute?s publication Environment News, this mouse seems to be genetically identical to a common cousin.
The endangered species listing on the Preble?s Meadow Jumping Mouse was based on a 1954 study of a university professor who reached his conclusion based on the examination of three skulls and 11 skins, according to Lehr.
Bullshit. Look at the Federal Register’s final notice for the rules and the appropriate citations.
More troubling is that Joyce and Fehr would seem to not understand that biodiversity includes subspecies. You’d think that a fine publication like the Leader might actually have an environmental columnist who knew just a tad about biology. Or not.
In a rather strange bit even for Joyce:
Do you suppose wetlands promoters told Illinois legislators that Illinois received nearly $20.2 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture earmarked for the Wetlands Reserve Program for fiscal year 2004? Or did they apply a little “situational ethics” here?
Why would state legislators not know about money coming in from the federal government?
More troubling is Joyce is rather clueless about the state of wetlands protection given recent court cases:
On January 9, 2001 the US Supreme Court dealt a heavy blow to wetlands in Illinois, and the nation, with its decision in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SWANCC). The Court ruled that the Army Corps had improperly denied a proposal to destroy ponds that provide habitat for migrating birds in order to build a landfill.
The Court held that state and local governments, not the federal government, have the authority to regulate these “isolated” wetlands. Because Illinois has no state-level program in place for these critical areas, they are suddenly without any protection
Ignorance is curable. Situational ethics would appear to apply to an ignorant fool who feels no need to understand what the hell she is talking about.
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