Last week I pointed out that I am not closely related to Erik Holsinger, one of the producers of the Planet Bob video. Today I find it necessary to point out that I am not the Kent Holsinger referred to in this story from the Rocky Mountain News:
Builders say mouse-saving rule too costly
The government's effort to protect the Preble's meadow jumping mouse will cost the state's economy hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming decades, Colorado home builders and developers said Monday.Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the mouse will be delisted from the Endangered Species Act in Wyoming but will remain listed in Colorado.
Besides being an economic burden, delisting in Wyoming, but not in Colorado, could "run afoul of the U.S. Constitution," argues lawyer Kent Holsinger.
I actually wrote a couple of things about Preble's meadow jumping mouse more than two years ago (here and here). This poor little mouse was one of the ones the Fish & Wildlife Service decided to review after Julie McDonald stepped down.
On November 1, 2007, the Service announced a revised proposal to remove the Preble's populations in Wyoming from the List of Threatened and Endangered Species; and proposing to amend the listing for Prble's to indicate the subspecies remains threatened in the Colorado portion of its range. Additionally, the best commercial and scientific information available demonstrates that the Preble's is a valid subspecies and should not be removed from the List of Threatened and Endangered Species based upon taxonomic revision. (source)
In any case the Kent Holsinger quoted in the Rocky Mountain News article isn't me. He's Kent H. Holsinger, a lawyer.with Hale Friesen, LLP in Denver and a former Assistant Director for water issues at the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
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