On Feb 24, 12:06*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:17:48 -0800 (PST), "JustWaitAFrekinMinute!"





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I am all for protecting wildlife but most of this manatee problem is
man made by the same people who think they are protecting them.
The "manatee zones" are political compromises that are not actually
based on much science. It simply gives the politicians political cover
when people ask what they are doing. They can say we protected "x"
thousand square miles of water for the manatee, whether that is where
the manatee are or not. This 10,000 islands zone has not been
protected that much up until now because for most of the winter, the
water is too cold for a manatee. The same is true in most of Florida,
except where we are creating hot spots.
If we were really following the ESA we would not be discharging the
hot water in the first place (the ESA says we are not supposed to
interrupt their natural behavior). We certainly would not be
artificially heating it. Unfortunately this policy is driven by people
out in "flyover land" *who have never seen a manatee, don't own a boat
and know very little about either one of them.

BTW how do you feel about mountain lions?
What if someone called them the "California Panther" and said you
could not disturb one that was eating your pets and chasing your kids?
We have that going on here too. Again, it is mostly driven by people
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So you are saying these decisions are made on the Federal level and
the folks in your state are bound by them?

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How do the legislature and enforcement feel about these decisions? Are
they fighting, could you cut off funds or refuse to enforce like
States with Marijuana laws? Or are the state leaders not interested
for whatever reason in taking on this fight? As someone outside your
state, based on what I see "spoon fed" to me is there are plenty of
Manatees, they are a problem, and I don't agree with the protections
the Fed has initiated...

Scotty

Scotty