Rare Pest

Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
Thu Jun 15 19:20:22 EDT 2000


I am getting cranial cramps trying to find some logic or at least some
consistency and common sense in some of the legal stuff re. USDA/USFWS that
I have been reading.  It seems that one government law makes B. acrocnema an
endangered species to be protected while another makes it a plant pest that
should presumably be extirpated to protect the plants. What's wrong with
this picture ??  How should the average person on the street react to the
next bug they encounter ?  Try to figure out if it is endangered and hence
they should walk around it ? Or treat it as a plant pest and crush it with
impunity ? So even if it were possible for a human being to be aware of all
the laws on the books there still seems to be a challenge in application :-)
:-)

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Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
Forest Ecosystem Specialist, Ministry of Environment
845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
Phone 250-365-8610
Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca       
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca


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