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?
Its just a ploy to get the issue before the voters. They will equate Simon with the devil and give Davis a passing grade when the election is near.
I too have observed very high regulatory control in riperian zones around rivers on private land. They regulated our logging and kept us out of river zones. What else could they do except plant spotted owls in the forest?
Just look back at how they intimidated George Herbert Walker Bush! They had more fun writing stories to make him embarrassed and supporting all the "romantic activists" escapades. They did a huge amount of it to Pete Wilson and his Resources Agency head, Dougie Wheeler who fancied himself an EnvironMentalCase.
These guys all know where the votes and the money are!!! It's in the dang blue zones with all the blue nosed citified slickers who can only fanticize about living in the rural areas and living off the land by actually caring for it!
They come out here for a few weekends and one vacation per year and ski, raft, kayak, taste some wine, check out a dude ranch, check out the historical stuff, do a little crafting and antiquing... then go back to their traffic choked, crime riddled metro-money makeing enterprise and send their tax deductible contributions to THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, THE AMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY, THE SIERRA CLUB, FRIENDS OF THE RIVER, DUCKS UNLIMITED, THE GREAT VALLEY CENTER, THE SIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitium...
You know what happens to that money. They refer to it in their grant writing applications to the Feds as a "strong show of support for public money to be used in a PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP" between them and the totally infiltrated Federal/State Agency that is "Empire Building" at full TILT by "Rural Cleansing!!!"
Exactly my first thought. To me, this means that the RATS know Davis is doomed and are leaving his sinking ship! Wooo-hooooo!