The farmer spends 6000.00 of his own
>money, the damn republicans get great publicity and I would bet it would be
>hard to find too many people who would say that the gophers would use
>tunnels. I saw the tunnels and they look pretty absurd. I don't think we can
>afford lose-lose situations. You say it was worth a try. But it cost the
>farmer $6000. I don't consider that worth a try. Its hard enough being a
>farmer without building stuff at his expense that isn't going to work.
>I just don't see building tunnels as qualifying as "maintaining habitat".
>
>
>Jim Rosso


I know nothing about this incident - but I would caution readers that many
of the so-called "ESA horror stories" made much of by anti-environmental
conservatives have turned out, on investigation, to be either untrue or
drastically different from the way they were reported. This incident sounds
so ridiculous that I have suspicions about whether it really happened that way.
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