Clean Up and Rebuilding Efforts In Fire-Ravaged Paradise, CA Have Come to a Standstill – Over Frogs

Chicks On The Right  "I’m sorry, but this is one of the most California things I have ever heard.

"As you probably remember, the town of Paradise, California was burned to the ground during the Camp Fire last year. People lost absolutely everything.  “The fire destroyed over 18,000 buildings and killed 85 people. Authorities were unable to account for roughly 1,200 other people. The fire burned down the town of Paradise, and its 27,000 residents were forced to leave to find new homes or rebuild.”
"Damages amounted at over 11 BILLION dollars.
"Now, efforts to clean up the rubble, and attempts to recover and rebuild have come to a standstill – over endangered frogs.
"According to Daily Caller: 

endangered frogs in California are making it difficult for state officials to decide on regulations that allow fire crews to clean up debris left from a deadly fire in the town of Paradise.

Clean-up crew[s] have been barred, however, from entering approximately 800 sites because of frog species that have halted rebuilding and clearing efforts as state and federal seek an agreement on environmental guidelines, The Sacramento Bee reported Friday.   . . .

Fears of harming an endangered frog species have forced crews to delay cleaning debris from about 800 properties in Paradise, angering some residents anxious to start rebuilding their homes.

. . . "In [a] statement calling the situation absurd, Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Tehama, and Assemblyman James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, lamented "that frogs, birds and waterways are causing work to stop in some areas."

" 'Survivors are anxious to rebuild or move on. Our neighbors have gone through hell in this disaster, and must be the priority," they said in a joint statement." . . .