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As AP reports:
LUBBOCK, Texas - Federal officials are readying plans to evacuate a small number of endangered species in Texas as a severe drought lowers water levels and threatens the survival of rare wildlife in the state's huge ecosystem.
Months with almost no rain have caused water levels to drop by half or more in many rivers, lakes and other bodies of water, including springs in the central Texas Hill Country that are the only remaining habitat for populations of small fish, amphibians and other creatures. If the water continues to drop sharply, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are preparing to net up large samples from the springs to take to a hatchery for preservation.
Eric Gay / AP
Texas Blind Salamanders, an endangered species, are seen at the National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center, in San Marcos, Texas. As rivers and lakes are being sucked dry across drought-stricken Texas, wildlife experts are considering a move to new waters to save some of the state's endangered fish.
Eric Gay / AP
A tour boat is seen at San Marcos Springs, in San Marcos, Texas.
Eric Gay / AP
A San Marcos salamander, an endangered species, is measured for research at the National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center, in San Marcos, Texas.
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When voters line up to vote during the upcoming election they need to understand that a healthy environment is critical to our own survival. Just like the salamanders and other endangered or threatened species we too could become endangered.
The Republican Party is not interested in the protection of our environment. Republicans want to roll back environmental regulations and transfer response responsibilities to the States. They pledge allegiance to those whose interests ignore the quality of life for future generations. Your children, your grandchildren, and all the generations after are depending on you to not support the Republican Party Agenda.
No kidding, the drought effects a hell of a lot more than just that. How many species got wiped out in the Dust Bowl in the 30's? Was that Global Warming too?
No. So?
The dust bowl was caused by man's scientific ignorance; the Republican party reflects that same ignorance in the science of ecology. Endangered and threatened native species are, scientifically, biological diversity or the strands in the web of all life. Salamanders and all native plant and animal biological diversity creates, sustains and maintains the Earth's ecosystems or all the reason man breathes.
Tragically, the Republicans are science phobics and fail to comprehend the science that dictates how Earth functions, cycles and works to give and sustain all life. Therein is the problem; man's ignorance as to how the Earth is in the eco-nomics of all life, that is man's.