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RE: Endangered by state???

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Posted by: varanid at Fri Jun 18 00:36:59 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by varanid ]  
   

I've always thought there ought to be a way to declare something endangered at a state level; let's say that box turtles, while common over most of their range, have been over collected/lost too much habitat/been eaten/whatever to the point that they occupy a small portion of the former state range. Protect 'em within the state. Set aside habitat, disallow development on box turtle habitat, etc.

But that ain't how it works, sadly. You get states that protect something that never had a signifcant range in the state; migrants sometimes may have come in (like with your racers) say. There have been an occasional wanderer (like wolverines in colorado). But they've never had a self sustaining population in the area. You get states deciding to outlaw private ownership but allow major tracts of habitat to get bulldozed--I can't go and collect box turtles from that beautiful field I used to find them in before it's bulldozed, killing them all...in the name of protecting them. Where's the logic?
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