Preble’s jumping mouse excuse to stop developers

Designation as endangered a questionable exercise

On Oct. 1st, Colorado Rep. David Skaggs added $400,000 to a bill to protect the Preble˜s meadow jumping mouse. In its Oct. 9 edition, The Fort Collins Coloradoan reported that "two separate populations of the Preble˜s meadow jumping mouse were discovered on the Colorado Division of Wildlife˜s Lower Cherokee Park and Lone Pine state wildlife areas west of Livermore."
How might these two incidents affect citizens of Albany and Laramie counties in Wyoming and Boulder, Larimer, and Weld counties in Colorado?
Actually, an announcement occurred on March 25th that makes the above events consequential.…