Utah Lake Pike Survey - youtube

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Good points.  Anyone who is the least bit environmentally conscious hates to see any species...bug, bird, snake or animal...forever eradicated from the earth.  And it is especially concerning when that loss is due to human mismanagement of the environment.  But it does happen...and loss of species is a big part of the earth's history.  For us, that's a good thing.  Thankfully the evolutionary process brought the human species up to where we are today...although some parts of that are debatable.  And due to extinctions we don't have to dodge dinosaurs on our morning commute.

Personally, I am all for protecting any species that DESERVES protection...whether for economic or esoteric reasons.  But when it comes to June Suckers I have never been among the huge crowds protesting for their protection.  Junies were a big thing to the early settlers in Utah...providing much needed protein during the lean times.  But since then they have declined in importance.  Now they are only one of the several forage species in Utah Lake.  And spending millions of dollars to try to save them...just because it's "the right thing to do" seems silly.

Part of the lessons I learned early in life...both from family and from school classes...was that one of the keys to survival (human) was to be able to use sound reasoning in problem solving...and to accept those things that were impossible to change and to "go with it".  June suckers are unique...only by being found in only one place in the world.  But, if they were to be allowed to decline and perish naturally there would not be the slightest blip on the world screen.  What's next?  A Trump tariff on them?

Sorry, Junie huggers.
 

The same government agencies throwing our money at the June Sucker will throw a lot more at genetically modifying the Quagga mussel to extinction, must be a different set of rules or just hypocrisy.