July 6, 2009, - 12:24 pm
Palouse Earthworm: Yet Another Example of Enviro-Nuttiness Land Grab 101
By Debbie Schlussel
As we know, one of the most used weapons of the enviro-nuts and eco-hypocrites of the green/global warming/climate change crowd is the endangered species list.
And the Palouse earthworm is a great example of how ridiculous their claims are and how blatant the greeniacs (not to be confused with the faux-uprising in Iran greeniacs) are in their fakery and phoniness.
The worm has ben seen only four times in more than a century (far less than the Loch Ness monster has been sighted), and environmental activists are using the worm to wreak havoc on agriculture in the Palouse Prairie, near the Washington/Idaho border. They say that the European earthworms–arriving here from Europe–invaded the Palouse worms’ habitat and overtook them, making them extinct. So sad, too bad. That’s what happens when you have natural competition beyond human control.
As much as I disliked the ignoramus, Islamo-pandering President Bush, at least his administration had the good sense to ignore this BS request. I don’t give Obama the same odds for intelligence here.
Fans of the giant Palouse earthworm are once again seeking federal protection for the rare, sweet-smelling species that spits at predators.
They filed a petition Tuesday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requesting the worm be protected as an endangered species.
“The giant Palouse earthworm is critically endangered and needs the protection of the Endangered Species Act to have any chance of survival,” said Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity.
The center filed the lawsuit along with Friends of the Clearwater, Palouse Prairie Foundation, Palouse Audubon and Palouse Group of Sierra Club.
The worm has been seen only four reported times in the past 110 years, but supporters contend it is still present in the Palouse, a region of about 2 million acres of rolling wheat fields near the Idaho-Washington border south of Spokane.
Decades of intense agriculture and urban sprawl have wiped out much of the worm’s habitat, said Steve Paulson with Friends of the Clearwater. Only about 2 percent of the Palouse prairie remains in a native state, he said.
Hey, I know, let’s order “no agriculture or building” on all two million acres in Washington State. That way, we can be sure that the Loch Ness, er . . . the Palouse worm, can be protected and survive. And while we’re at it, perhaps the guv’mint should step in and protect Atari and Space Invaders. After all, they, too, are endangered species that lost out to Japanese imports that invaded their habitat. They, too, has only been seen four times in the last century or so.
The worm can reach 3 feet in length, is white in color and reportedly possesses a unique lily smell, said Greenwald, who is based in Portland, Ore. It is the largest and longest-lived earthworm in North America.
Damn. Whatever will we do without three-foot, white earthworms that smell like lilies?
The sad truth Debbie is that one day soon Americans may very well be on that endangered species list.
J.M. Lewis
St. Clair Shores, Michigan
Blog: http://rougerevival.blogspot.com/
Jimmy on July 6, 2009 at 12:45 pm