Obama’s War on Bald Eagles

Obama administration proposes loosening rules against 'programmatic' killing of bald eagles



The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is proposing to loosen regulations prohibiting the killing of bald eagles for the benefit of renewable energy companies.

http://freebeacon.com/obamas-war-on-bald-eagles/

Ok, now I'm confused... Green energy companies are going to get a pass for killing endangered species in the name of energy that is "better" for the environment? I would hardly consider myself to be an environmentalist but this doesn't seem right to me.

otisptoadwater wrote: Obama administration proposes loosening rules against 'programmatic' killing of bald eagles

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is proposing to loosen regulations prohibiting the killing of bald eagles for the benefit of renewable energy companies.

http://freebeacon.com/obamas-war-on-bald-eagles/

Ok, now I'm confused... Green energy companies are going to get a pass for killing endangered species in the name of energy that is "better" for the environment? I would hardly consider myself to be an environmentalist but this doesn't seem right to me.

When it serves your purpose you turn green rather fast. Hypocrite?

Just another double standard. The oil industry gets a lot more criticism for killing birds than the wind industry does.

This is your manufactured outrage-of-the-day?

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Rave on....

Oh, yeah, "if it keeps just one person from voting for Obama...". You think that will do it?

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The Obama Administration? Its the department of Fish and Wildlife. This is the same game you played when you blamed "The Administration" for OSHA's website content.

Do a little research on a topic you know absolutly nothing about

Eagle Permits; Changes in the Regulations Governing Eagle Permitting
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/13/2012-8086/eagle-permits-changes-in-the-regulations-governing-eagle-permitting#p-17
Questions and Answers about Bald Eagles Recovery and Delisting
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/recovery/qandas.html

Draft Post-delisting Monitoring Plan
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/DraftBAEAPDM.html

FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT THIS IS FROM 2009 :bash (Were you outraged then?)
Proposal to Permit Take Provided Under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/CurrentBirdIssues/BaldEagle/FEA_EagleTakePermit_Final.pdf

Summary
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed the bald eagle
(Haliaeetus leucocephalus) from the list of threatened and endangered
species under the Federal Endangered Species Act in all areas except the
range of the Sonoran Desert bald eagle population, which remains
protected as a threatened species. The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection
Act (Eagle Act) remains as the primary law protecting bald eagles in other
parts of its range and the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos).
• The Eagle Act authorizes the Secretary to permit take of eagles
“necessary for the protection of … other interests in any particular locality.”
In addition, there may be instances where take of eagle nests is
necessary to protect public safety and welfare.
• In this assessment we consider three alternatives for regulations
establishing new take permits under the Eagle Act, and authorizing take of
eagle nests where necessary to protect public safety and welfare.
• The assessment looks at potential impacts that could result from the
implementation of the proposed regulation or alternatives to the proposed
regulation within the context of other take already authorized or otherwise
occurring.
• This assessment also summarizes the biological foundation for defining
take thresholds for bald eagles and golden eagles. Under the preferred
alternative, the Service will define thresholds for take by adapting a
published model used in other recent raptor regulations. The thresholds
will guide annual take limits on a regional basis to ensure that we are
consistent with the goal of stable or increasing breeding populations.
• The majority of authorized take will be non-lethal and will simply allow
activities to disturb eagles in a way that will result in a loss or reduction of
one year’s productivity by a nesting pair.
• On-the-ground information and conditions will guide the actual amount of
take authorized, which may be less than modeled, as long as the total
does not exceed the modeled thresholds.
• Except for safety emergencies, the rule will give priority in permitting to
Native American use for rites and ceremonies that require eagles be taken
from the wild if requests for permits will likely approach the annual
threshold. The next permit priorities will be for activities necessary to
ensure public health and safety, renewal of programmatic nest-take
permits, and Non-emergency activities necessary to ensure public health
and safety, and (for inactive golden eagle nests only) resource
development or recovery operations (§ 22.25).
• The Service’s preferred alternative, number 3, will: (1) authorize
disturbance take of eagles; (2) authorize removal of eagle nests where
necessary to protect public health and safety; and (3) provide for permits
for take resulting in mortality in some limited circumstances. It will
authorize take permits for both bald eagles and golden eagles.
• Alternative 3 is also the environmentally-preferred alternative. It is
expected to have the least adverse impact on the human environment,
with negligible effects on the natural and physical environment and the
least adverse impact along with the most beneficial impacts to the
socioeconomic environment.
• The criteria for issuance of permits would initially limit their issuance to
only 5% of the Maximum Sustainable Yield for bald eagles, which is
consistent with the recommendations in published literature for take of
raptors where population monitoring may be limited or there are concerns
about the vital rates for a species
• The best available data we have for golden eagles indicate modest
declines in the four BCRs that constitute 80 percent of its range in the
lower 48 states. Estimates of population size in Alaska are coarse, based
upon even fewer data sources than in the lower 48 states, and juvenile
survival may be far lower, so management would therefore need to be
conservative. In addition, McIntyre et al. (2008) suggested that
conservation strategies for migratory golden eagles require a continental
approach. Therefore, until we have additional data to show that
populations can withstand additional take, of those authorized under the
new rule, we will only consider issuance of permits for safety emergencies
and programmatic and other permits that will result in a net reduction in
take or a net take of zero for golden eagles. We will continue to issue
historically-authorized take permits under existing permit types at the level
of take carried out under those permits (average over 2000-2007).

Perhaps you should use actual facts rather than making up your "outrages". The bald eagle is NOT an endangered species. It was delisted years ago. But hey why not make up your "facts" for your outrage. Typical.