Recession Reshmession!

[Lloyd Danforth]

Life goes on in the crazy world of the feebs feds......


Saving rare fish may require moving mouth of river

By MIKE STARK
Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Saving Utah's endangered June sucker may require moving a river.

Federal officials this week announced they're in the early stages of planning a project to shift the mouth of the Provo River as it flows into Utah Lake.

The idea is to create a wide, shallow delta where young June sucker can thrive as they drift from the river, where they're born, to the lake, where they'll spend most of their adult lives before returning to the river to spawn.

Most June sucker die in the lower Provo, either from starvation or by becoming a snack for a predator.

Federal officials want to move all or part of the Provo River mouth to the north where the habitat is better. They say it's a crucial step in making sure the fish - listed as an endangered species since 1986 - can reproduce on its own.

[Kat Kanning]

Only a bunch of suckers would pay for that.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Suckers paying for Suckers!

The 'merican Way,Man!

[Pat McCotter]

"Acquired private fee lands." Euphemism for eminent domain? Looking at Google maps there is extensive farmland there. This is also the reason for the problem - diversion of river water for irrigation.

Federal Register: March 16, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 50)

The conceptual restoration is to relocate the lower Provo River onto public and acquired private fee lands, and connect the river to a former bay of Utah Lake that will be restored to provide habitat conditions necessary for survival and recruitment of June sucker.