In an escalation of its campaign against cattle grazing in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains, the eco-left fringe group, the Center for Biological Diversity, has filed yet another frivolous lawsuit targeting the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The lawsuit alleges that these federal agencies have failed to protect riparian areas and meadows from cattle, purportedly to benefit the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse—a species so elusive that there is no concrete evidence of its presence.
The Center’s lawsuit, which is the third in five years, is based on claims that federal agencies have repeatedly violated legal agreements to protect this endangered species and its habitat. However, the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse remains largely undocumented, with no recent verifiable sightings or evidence of its existence in these areas. The Center’s persistent legal battles raise questions about the real motivations behind their claims, which appear to be more about pushing an ideological agenda than addressing genuine conservation needs.
Robin Silver, co-founder of the Center, has framed the lawsuit as a fight against government neglect. “It’s outrageous that we’re forced back into court to make federal agencies fulfill their duty to protect endangered species,” Silver declared. But the focus on an ostensibly unseen mouse has severe consequences for the local ranching community, which relies on grazing in the Sacramento Mountains.
Ranchers in the region are already facing significant challenges, and this lawsuit threatens to exacerbate their struggles. The Center’s actions could lead to stricter grazing restrictions or outright bans, which would not only impact their livelihoods but could also disrupt the local economy. The Sacramento Mountains are not just a critical habitat for this unverified mouse; they are also essential for the communities that depend on them for agricultural activities.
The lawsuit accuses the Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service of failing to protect the mouse’s habitat by allowing cattle grazing, which the Center claims destroys vital meadows and streambanks. Yet, the evidence for such destruction is questionable and often relies on outdated or misrepresented data.
While the Center insists that protecting these areas from grazing is crucial for the recovery of the jumping mouse, it overlooks the broader implications for the local ecosystem and economy. Cattle grazing, a longstanding practice in the region, has been targeted by the Center’s lawsuits despite its role in supporting the livelihoods of many local families.
In addition to its lack of tangible evidence for the presence of the jumping mouse, the Center’s litigation strategy raises concerns about its priorities. By focusing on legal battles over a species that has not been observed in recent years, the Center risks inflicting unnecessary harm on local ranchers and potentially undermining the balance of land management in the Sacramento Mountains.
If Democrats can’t/don’t want to see that their people are messing and destroying the food supply, because of their agendas and too many people and cows on this earth story……
Not to diminish this story, but I wish there would be a movement from ranchers and farmers against the so called cloud seeding that has changed New Mexico weather so that trees are dying everywhere. The poisons spewed from those, again so called, contrails is killing the flora, fauna, cattle, us. Ignoring it is not going to make it go away. It’s been going on for decades, but it was highly intensified since 2020. Do you honestly think all those stripes in the skies are normal? Do you really think that the scorching, micro-wave type heat we get is normal? I eat beef, but I’m worried about the nano particles the cattle are eating along with the grasses being passed on to me. Have any of the cattle been found dead lately? I’ve heard a lot of excuses about why so many have been found dead. Just wondering.
Feed your unicorn
The dying trees are due to incredibly poor forest management. Graze it, log it, or watch it burn or be destroyed by insects. (Go enjoy a visit to the dead forests throughout the west, Colorado is a prime example.) Lousy thinning is destroying forests. Elk can’t even walk through them, they are so over grown.
Let’s see when jets fly through moist air; the jet engines heat the air and contrails are formed. A beautiful sight. When the atmosphere is dry, no contrails. Go boil some water in a tea kettle, what comes out of the vent, contrails!
Babs, you are a shill who can not look up and see for yourself the damage geo engineering is doing, as well as all the toxicology reports regarding this
you are absolutely right. Dying Trees are due to incredibly poor forest management. All the super fires that are happening all over the west and have here in New Mexico are caused by not burning off the underbrush that is growing so thick that it gives a furnace like property to cause the fires to get much hotter.
good points, Sue
The Jumping Mouse is a radical leftist/ environmentalist group that preys on ranchers and anyone else who makes an honest living.
I guess they would rather the ranchers go extinct rather than some mouse that nobody has seen!
You mean the Center for Biological Perversity? or CBD for Center for BS (shortened!) Distribution. Or the Conmen of Bastardly Disinformation? So many possibilities for their acronym. How about the Commies of Brainwashed Dysfunction? etc. and so forth!
Another important point is all the fencing off and bans of creatures that essentially clear the growth on the forest bed is contributing to the strength of these catastrophic forest fires we’ve been seeing from here to the northwest.
Too true!
Radical femdems in power will never be satisfied until everyone is miserable like them. Look at the records of them all before you vote.
Of mice and men. I choose men.
Right on. A wilderness designation is a death sentence to forests, multiple ecosystems, and aquatic habitats. Check out spotted owl wilderness designated forests after a fire, the habitat is GONE!
We are all less intelligent for having read your comment. Elk, Deer and other animals are not stopped by fences installed to control grazing and more. If the wild animals liked to eat dead, dry shrubs, whole pine trees, layers of pine needles etc, you might be correct. But they don’t and you are very wrong.
A few dozen head of feral cats introduced accidently on-purpose into the meadows in question will make the whole mouse beef, as it were, moot.
The spotted owls ate the jumping mice. Then the forest fires wiped out the spotted owls.
Save the wooly-headed grasshoppers!
I think we should MAKE environmentalists an endangered species.