Liberal stupidity...Cows are stomping on an endangered mouse, and the US Forest Service is getting blamed for it

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/16/us-forest-service-
new-mexico-meadow-jumping-mouse-
deaths/8150548002/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=exchange&utm_content=news

CARLSBAD, N.M. – Environmentalists have sued again over an endangered
mouse found only in parts of New Mexico and Arizona.

In the latest legal filing, the Center for Biological Diversity and the
Maricopa Audubon Society accuse the U.S. Forest Service of failing to
protect the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse and its habitat in the
Sacramento Mountains from cattle grazing.

The tiny rodent was listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service in 2014. The agency then designated nearly 22 square miles along
about 170 miles of streams, ditches and canals as critical habitat in
parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona.

Robin Silver with the Center for Biological Diversity told the Carlsbad
Current-Argus that grazing is to blame for streamside meadows being
trampled and the mouse disappearing.

“It’s absurd that the Forest Service spends millions in taxpayer money
failing to protect the area and stop this slow-motion extinction instead
of just removing the cows," he said.

The group last year had called for an independent investigation into
Forest Service practices in southern New Mexico, saying hundreds of
grazing violations on the Lincoln National Forest have pushed the mouse
closer to extinction.

Three decades ago, the mice were found at 17 locations in the Sacramento
Mountains on the Lincoln National Forest. Now it’s just one. A report made
public last year noted that the drop in the population continued in 2020.

The mice live near streams and depend on tall grass to hide from
predators. They hibernate for about nine months, emerging in the late
spring to gorge themselves before mating, giving birth and going back into
hibernation. They usually live about three years.

According to the lawsuit, there were dozens of cases a year when the
Forest Service reported cattle grazing in protected mouse habitat. It
cited as many as 40 violations over a two-month period.

From 2016 to 2019, the Forest Service spent more than $8.4 million on
fencing and other projects in the Sacramento Mountains, including along
the Agua Chiquita creek, to protect mouse habitat.

The Lincoln National Forest said in a statement that the agency worked to
ensure the mouse’s safety by installing permanent pipe and cable fencing
near its habitat.

Each mile of fence costs $137,000 to $227,000, records show.

More projects to protect the mouse and riparian habitat are planned,
forest officials said.

Environmentalists are calling on the agency to suspend grazing permits
where the violations occur and for the federal government to study the
effects of grazingimpacts of the activities for future decision making.



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