{"id":4500,"date":"2012-05-20T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2012-05-20T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:08:38","slug":"from-eastcountypost-org-silence-of-the-lambs-u-s-government-authorizes-killing-of-endangered-bighorns-in-path-of-wind-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/20\/from-eastcountypost-org-silence-of-the-lambs-u-s-government-authorizes-killing-of-endangered-bighorns-in-path-of-wind-project\/","title":{"rendered":"(from eastcountypost.org)  &#8216;SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: U..S. GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZES KILLING OF ENDANGERED BIGHORNS IN PATH OF WIND PROJECT&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 May 19, 2012 (Ocotillo) &#8212; In a precedent that has horrified wildlife experts, the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service has authorized the \u201ctake\u201d (meaning harassment, displacement or even death) of 10 endangered Peninsular Bighorn Sheep \u2013 five ewes and five lambs.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after federal wildlife officials were provided photographic evidence\u00a0 that the endangered animals were seen in recent weeks on the site of the just-approved Ocotillo Express wind energy facility\u2014a presence federal officials and the project developer have long denied.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Jorgensen is the retired Superintendent of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which shares a five mile border with the Ocotillo Express wind project now under construction on adjacent public property owned by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM). He is horrified at the decision to allow the killing of the sheep on land that until recently was designated as critical bighorn habitat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY, CLICK THE PIC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastcountymagazine.org\/node\/9732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4501\" title=\"bighorn-lamb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bighorn-lamb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bighorn-lamb.jpg 774w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bighorn-lamb-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS, CLICK &#8216;THE ZEPHYR&#8217; AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 May 19, 2012 (Ocotillo) &#8212; In a precedent that has horrified wildlife experts, the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service has authorized the \u201ctake\u201d (meaning harassment, displacement or even death) of 10 endangered Peninsular Bighorn Sheep \u2013 five ewes and five lambs. The decision comes after federal wildlife officials were provided photographic evidence\u00a0 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}