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Despite criticism from the federal government and his own campaign pledge four years ago, Gov. Gray Davis has done little to strengthen logging restrictions around the state's streams and creeks, pushing Northern California's salmon and steelhead trout closer to extinction.

Bull-oney! The coho salmon rules that the Davis appointed Board implimented in July of 2000, and have extended every year since, placed severe regulatory restrictions on logging near fish bearing streams. As stated at the end of the article: The rules create 150-foot buffers on each side of fish-bearing streams. Loggers are required to leave 85 percent of the canopy within 75 feet of the stream and 65 percent of the canopy in the remaining part of the buffer.

These rules severely damaged the ability of small landowners to harvest their own land here in Kali. This was not enough for the enviros however, because the big companies still are logging their own company lands.

Since taking office, however, he has raised about $336,000 from timber companies while appointing a majority of pro-industry members to the Board of Forestry who have opposed the tough restrictions that federal officials and environmentalists say are needed to restore Northern California's wilderness.

See, it's not about saving the fish; it's about implimenting the wildlands project in Northern California.

I could go on ripping this article apart because it is down right mis-leading and innacurate. The question I have is: Why is the liberal San Francisco Chronicle ripping into their golden boy Davis?

So many lies. So little time.

My chainsaws are hot and so am I (it's 80° today). Chuggin Gatorade loaded with a couple grams of calciumn citrate. As soon as we both cool off and sharpen up a little we're going back out for more. Only one oak so far today, cut, piled, stumped, chopped, bucked, and loaded. At least two more to go today. Then I plant one more oak in a filtered spot behind an old fart with only about ten more years or so left in it (PG&E pruning and the County side casting ditch cleanings on its root crown have just about killed it). I located my burn piles to scarify the soil for a fill to support the County road. I'll be all set to take their ditch cleanings. It'll take about 40-50 yards of material in just this one swale. Then there's getting PG$E to relocate a guy pole. Once they are done with that I'll put in some ceanothus and manzanita to stabilize the fill. Then there's weeding it for about five to ten years.

That's just one project.

. . . pushing Northern California's salmon and steelhead trout closer to extinction.

I'm sorry, Pokey. I can't continue. I know that you were not intending to cause damage to fellow freepers - BUT YOU HAVE!

I cannot continue with this piece o' s**t.

Yo, Waspman!!! run!!! Let's go find Barb boxer and take her fishing on Caples Lake . . . show 'er th' wilderness. OK?