Federal plan aims to help wildlife adapt to climate change

[Stephanie]

taking our land for the sake of animals and PLANTS..all part of the plan..screw you people

SNIP:

By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau
.March 27, 2013


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday announced a nationwide plan to help wildlife adapt to threats from climate change.

Developed along with state and tribal authorities, the strategy seeks to preserve species as global warming alters their historical habitats and, in many cases, forces them to migrate across state and tribal borders.

Over the next five years, the plan establishes priorities for what will probably be a decades-long effort. One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M. Ashe said such routes could be made through easements and could total "much more than 1 million acres." The plan does not provide an estimate of the cost.

The effects of climate change are already apparent, the plan notes. Oyster larvae are struggling off the Northwest coast. In the Atlantic, fish are migrating north and into deeper waters. Geese and ducks do not fly as far south. In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.

The plan, called the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, does not prioritize species to target, although "the polar bear is the poster child" of wildlife threatened by global warming, Ashe said.

But efforts have already begun to protect wildlife. The lesser prairie chicken in the Great Plains, for instance, also faces threats from mining, oil production, farming and ranching. Climate change models estimate that the chicken's habitat could undergo a 5-degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature and a drop in precipitation by 2060.

all of it here
LA Times

 

[editec]

I've been living next to the great northern forest for the last 20+ years.

Yes, the obvious changes in the flora and fauna are ALREADY very apparent.

As to creating corridors for some land animals?

Not a clue if that makes any sense.

Probably does in some VERY limited cases.

 

[Mad Scientist]

That's not actually a Federal Program. It's UN Agenda 21 being implemented by Federal and State "authorities".

 

[Katzndogz]

taking our land for the sake of animals and PLANTS..all part of the plan..screw you people

SNIP:

By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau
.March 27, 2013


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday announced a nationwide plan to help wildlife adapt to threats from climate change.

Developed along with state and tribal authorities, the strategy seeks to preserve species as global warming alters their historical habitats and, in many cases, forces them to migrate across state and tribal borders.

Over the next five years, the plan establishes priorities for what will probably be a decades-long effort. One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M. Ashe said such routes could be made through easements and could total "much more than 1 million acres." The plan does not provide an estimate of the cost.

The effects of climate change are already apparent, the plan notes. Oyster larvae are struggling off the Northwest coast. In the Atlantic, fish are migrating north and into deeper waters. Geese and ducks do not fly as far south. In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.

The plan, called the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, does not prioritize species to target, although "the polar bear is the poster child" of wildlife threatened by global warming, Ashe said.

But efforts have already begun to protect wildlife. The lesser prairie chicken in the Great Plains, for instance, also faces threats from mining, oil production, farming and ranching. Climate change models estimate that the chicken's habitat could undergo a 5-degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature and a drop in precipitation by 2060.

all of it here
LA Times

The bark beetles are infesting the trees in the west because they are protected by the EPA. It was never the winter cold that killed off infestations. Otherwise they would be extinct by now. What permitted bark beetle infestations was two things. One, the suppression of natural forest fires that naturally removed infested trees and two, the prohibition against cutting down and removing infested trees.

 

[Katzndogz]

Plants and animals adapt to their environment. They do it naturally, evolution is adaptation. The federal government is making a God of itself.

 

[editec]

That's not actually a Federal Program. It's UN Agenda 21 being implemented by Federal and State "authorities".

Thanks for the updated more accurate info, AC.

I have my doubts about the value of it, but I suppose there are limited cases where some species might benefit from it.

I think we'd all need to know more about the science behind this idea.

 

[DGS49]

The Federal Government does not have a good track record when it attempts to play God - either with humans or nature. It is a recipe for disasters from "unintended consequences."

 

[Quantum Windbag]

taking our land for the sake of animals and PLANTS..all part of the plan..screw you people

SNIP:

By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau
.March 27, 2013


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday announced a nationwide plan to help wildlife adapt to threats from climate change.

Developed along with state and tribal authorities, the strategy seeks to preserve species as global warming alters their historical habitats and, in many cases, forces them to migrate across state and tribal borders.

Over the next five years, the plan establishes priorities for what will probably be a decades-long effort. One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M. Ashe said such routes could be made through easements and could total "much more than 1 million acres." The plan does not provide an estimate of the cost.

The effects of climate change are already apparent, the plan notes. Oyster larvae are struggling off the Northwest coast. In the Atlantic, fish are migrating north and into deeper waters. Geese and ducks do not fly as far south. In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.

The plan, called the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, does not prioritize species to target, although "the polar bear is the poster child" of wildlife threatened by global warming, Ashe said.

But efforts have already begun to protect wildlife. The lesser prairie chicken in the Great Plains, for instance, also faces threats from mining, oil production, farming and ranching. Climate change models estimate that the chicken's habitat could undergo a 5-degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature and a drop in precipitation by 2060.

all of it here
LA Times

Obama wants to stop evolution now that he has succeeded in stopping the rise of the oceans?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I've been living next to the great northern forest for the last 20+ years.

Yes, the obvious changes in the flora and fauna are ALREADY very apparent.

As to creating corridors for some land animals?

Not a clue if that makes any sense.

Probably does in some VERY limited cases.

There is this new thing they have just discovered called evolution, you should look it up sometime.

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Now the statists believe they can control nature.

Idiocy.