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Environmentalist wackos strike again
Great, after we start to come out of tough economic times the Feds decide to slam the farmers, shippers and anyone who eats in this counry.....but hey the animals will benefit 
"WASHINGTON – In a surprising setback to farmers and barge shippers along the lower Missouri River, government biologists on Thursday affirmed the need for more shallow waters to ensure survival of the endangered pallid sturgeon.
The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service said that beginning next July, flows should be no greater than 25,000 cubic feet a second from the Gavins Point Dam on the South Dakota-Nebraska border.
That level would be too shallow for grain-laden barges carrying multimillion-dollar cargo toward the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Because barges need flows of about 28,500 cubic feet a second to maintain a consistent depth for operating, the industry says low flows would halt traffic along the river in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
The biological opinion represents the agency's final word on what should be done to trigger spawning and maintain a survivable habitat for young sturgeon.
The full impact of the findings was not immediately clear. But the Army Corps of Engineers has said it will use them to update river operations that have been virtually unchanged for more than four decades.
"The corps' actions continue to appreciably reduce the likelihood of both survival and recovery of the species, thus jeopardizing the continued existence of the pallid sturgeon in the wild," the Fish and Wildlife Service said.
In 2000, the agency said the sturgeon as well as two bird species, the endangered interior least tern and the threatened piping plover, could survive only if waterflow were changed to mimic conditions before the Missouri was dammed and channeled.
Those conditions included a spring rise in the river from the snow melt to trigger spawning and a lower level in the summer establishing a suitable habitat for young sturgeon."
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Environmentalist wackos strike again
I am sure we all would like to save as many species as possible, but Chief is right, we need some sort of balance. Everytime they find some semi-endangered animal anywhere, civilization is put on hold in that area.
The environmentalist go out and "find" one endangered critter and then the proposed building is forbidden. More than one person has suggested that some of the "finds" were arranged. "Oh' look, a red lipped-green eared bog turtle, the housing must not be built! 
In a town near me, rattlesnakes are engangered and people are forbidden from building fences that touch the ground because they stop the rattlers from roaming freely. That's great if YOUR kids are in the yard???????
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