Migration corridors and habitat get protection

[cabinish]

Polis directed CDOT to consider big game migration in transportation projects
and Natural Resources to determine threats and legislation to protect big game
habitat and migration corridors.

https://kdvr.com/2019/08/21/polis-signs ... d-habitat/

[BearMtnHIB]

This will add millions in cost add-ins to each project, and months of additional time for the studies.

Each regulation that is added - has consequences.
Maybe we should stop building more roads and just maintain the ones we already have.

[Tarryall]

And will decrease business at auto body shops! (Kidding!)

[Josey]

It sounds good in theory, but the Exec order has the force of law, and any whacko Enviro group can file lawsuits to halt/delay any minor project demanding reports, studies and paperwork. Reality-ville vs Idealism.

It is a well know tactic used to shut down progress or development.

[BearMtnHIB]

It sounds good in theory, but the Exec order has the force of law, and any whacko Enviro group can file lawsuits to halt/delay any minor project demanding reports, studies and paperwork. Reality-ville vs Idealism.

It is a well know tactic used to shut down progress or development.

Exactly right. Polis could care less about the migration of animals- this is a tactic to slow down and raise the cost of new roads. We could easily build underpasses for animals- been doing it for 40 years in Colorado.

I was the lead mechanical designer for the Longmont Water Treatment Plant back in the 90's. Environmental groups held up the construction of that 50 million dollar project for 8 months over a "spotted jumping mouse". Turned out that this mouse was nothing special- it was not a rare species as these groups had asserted. But they did get the courts to hold up the project. The citizens of Boulder county are still paying for those costs!

[cabinish]

Hopefully the actual order excludes metro areas, since wildlife has been migrating to towns and cities a lot lately!

Polis's pen has been too busy for my taste, something new everyday if not 2 or 3 since day one.

[Tarryall]

Hopefully the actual order excludes metro areas, since wildlife has been migrating to towns and cities a lot lately!

Polis's pen has been too busy for my taste, something new everyday if not 2 or 3 since day one.

Good point. So many animals seem to be adapting well to encroaching civilization. There was a Mountain Lion this spring in Lakewood hunting at Crown Lake wildlife preserve and cemetery.