How bird brained can one State be? - Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times has a report on how environmentalism is putting the talons into National Security via the California Costal Commission.
The gist is that the fences and roads that the Homeland Security folk want to install to protect our boarders, will interfere with the environment and the lives of birds.
Hudson lists the birds that the Commission claims will be adversely impacted:
A biological assessment said the project would "harass" one pair of least Bell's vireos and a one pair of Southwestern flycatchers by removing from their habitat nearly 3 acres of willow scrub and 4 acres of mule-fat scrub. Three gnatcatchers would also be "harassed" by the removal of sage scrub and southern maritime chaparral in nearly 50 acres.
Other endangered species would be "adversely effected" in the nearby Tijuana River National Estuary, including the light-footed clapper rail, a marsh-nesting bird, and the salt marsh bird's beak, a native coastal plant that helps check erosion.
The habitat of the nonendangered Baja California birdbush, which exists only on a mesa east of Smuggler's Gulch, and "an extremely rare maritime succulent-scrub vegetation community" on another mesa would also be threatened by the project, the report said.
She also mentions that the illegals seeking entrance into the US over unprotected boarders in trucks aren't doing a lot of good for the environment either.
