I’m sure if the Prebble mouse losses is protection under the endangered species act as described in this article, it won’t keep the Boulder County Commissioners and the land use zealots from continuing to use it as a tool control growth and house remodeling. Science is convenient when it supports your ideas but easily ignored when it doesn’t. I expect the power troika to continue to use the mouse as a tool to control people’s property rights.
It sure wouldn’t be surprising if a disproportionate amount of the dollars mentioned below have been spent in Boulder County…
Builders, landowners and local governments have spent as much as $100
million by some estimates protecting the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse since it
was added to the federal list in 1998 as a species whose survival was considered
“threatened.”
