“Some time this month, the Department of Interior will decide on whether to list the Lesser Prairie Chicken as an threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Listing the grouse would give government the ‘right’ to protect a habitat of 40-million-acres that spreads over five states: Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and Kansas. Much of the land is privately owned, and it includes rich pockets of oil and gas as well as active ranch and farm land. The land grab is being engineered in a manner that has become a signature of the Obama administration: quietly, autocratically and by sidestepping established restraints. In this case, the tactic is called ‘sue and settle.'”
http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35152/Wendy-McElroy-A-Vast-Land-Grab-to-Grouse-About/