My Thoughts

Sage Grouse Habitat
After weeks of our thoughts about Sage Grouse, readers may be getting tired of what My Thoughts has to say about the subject. Below are some excerpts of an editorial in The Denver Post 8/25/2017.

"US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke undid five years of hard work and collaboration when he changed existing habitat protection rules for the Greater Sage Grouse to favor of captive breeding and population targets approach. Zinke should know that captive breeding of endangered and threatened species misses the point. If a population of birds has nowhere to live, breed and flourish, hitting a population number through captive breeding is futile and unsustainable."

The populations of the bird have struggled, dropping from millions to somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000. Let's not let the population follow the route of the black-footed ferret where captive breeding is struggling to reacquaint our prairies with a once-thought-extinct weasel..."

This what My Thoughts has been saying .for weeks and months.

When Insults Had Class
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker.
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain.
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde.