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The biggest victims of ambitious endangered species plans in San Diego are farmers. Often the only people who have consistently cared for the land, farmers are under increasing attack from city-based critics, such as the earlier mentioned SOFAR.

The greens want to be able to jump into their Prius or hop onto their Segway and ride into the back country and not see houses or other habitation. Farmers, who often want to sell off parcels when water prices rise too high, are their natural enemies.

Ranchers, who for generations have raised cattle often find that, without being told, their land has had a sensitive habitat overlay put on it that effectively prevents them from doing something so simple as plowing without a permit. For them it may seems as though the true endangered species is Man himself.

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