Tuesday, February 01, 2005
million dollar mouse
a dna study discovered that the endangered preble meadow jumping mouse is identical to a common meadow mouse. this finding will likely lead to its removal from the protected list, and although conservation activists call it a political move, it is clear that it was one expensive mouse:
Builders, landowners and local governments have spent as much as $100 million by some estimates protecting the Preble's meadow jumping mouse since it was added to the federal list in 1998 as a species whose survival was considered 'threatened.'i realize that conservationists would argue that doing a simple cost-benefit analysis is beside the point. but $100 million? for a mouse?
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